1958-01-18 — Page 13

The

Political

Arts

Ball

by

CUMMINGS

"Help! I'm being,

attacked!

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1958.

You can't play this game

T

with dummy bombs

11

from

Anna Sharpley folky with SA.C sircrews of Waalover. Thay v completely on the base, two minutes away from the bomberr...

NEW YORK. Everyone knows that, how-

The recent British outcry at atom SAC airplanes landing and IE bomb-bay doors of ever mysteriously, the

the B62 jet bombers albeit in a more guarded part II-bombs is

bombs are unmistakably there taking off in Britain loaded with shrugged off as hang blamelessly open, of the base away the "unrealistic," for here. In like 'pocket - linings that peering motorists.

Massachusetts, they bèllove that have been turned out in

SAC's 3,000 airplanes and 50- There, a ceremonial rather odd

bases all over the free gesture of nothing to de like a hospital operation world have dono more to keep elare. But nobody at the going on. Solemnly sheeted in the peace than any olher Strategic Air Command canvas, the bombs are towed to factor.

his crew drew unfavourable Joo is a radar navigator, a of 152s li Russia knows that within comparisons, Bose, at Westover, Mansa- other line-up

men who knows the mysterious lesal up for talcċ-oß.

minutes of striking America or chusetts. deludes himself

Now that you've blown your пggregates of dots and bleops A canvas, bell-shaped screen one of the free nations, a steady trumpet why don't you tell her on a redar screen and is able about what goes into the conceals the lower part of the stream ol H-bomb-carrying the truth," ribled his grew, to say "that's Kansus City" or green-lined bellies of the 45 patient as the bomb for it may long-range bombers would "Ma'am I think you should alternatively 01) Lombers which are there be brands) is tucked kilde. A start off at altitudes well over know that all SAC crews are screen, that's Klev."

drawn directly and ex- lined up for anyone driving a blazes out, and there is a 50,000 feet with the abilly to not

While it is stressed that clusively from Russia is not inevitably the lunatic asylums," cremy, nevertheless it is clearly the short, Russia that must carross SAČ at the present stage of world snapping-

by to nce.

Candid snap catches intimate scene under the mistletoe

Best fancy dress worn by a

Mr. Selwyn Lloyd-impersona ting a Foreign Secretury.

BUTTER BEFORE GUNS!

Heart

KAN DU S

Dr. Adenauer d 2 conscientious objector.

With old world charm Ms. Dulles tries to get

a dance with, some Middle-Eastern 'ludles.

"Peace in

our time

sign here

17

Mr. Deyan arrives International Treuty,

·Mr. Quitskell and the 'Hamp stend old-school tie ter keep themselves to themselves.

The grand finale-hundreds of red balloons full on the gay throng below.

pell-mell of heavy- bosted feet. And for all that the bomber

when

beston Crown by ANNE SHARPLEY

know

they snatch their

Continental

all

Although there is no

over

tough,

sinulated

eyed Irishman.... events. And throughout SAC.

but got no further., there are men like Joe who

knowing they

of

despatch cases containing war pinpoint targels

In fact, SAC crews are the know Rusiła by the code plans up from the foot of Russia. And that tr 12 a best flers America has. Mostly luminous dots on radar servons their beds und skelter up the deterring thought. even to a veterans from World War II or that are the bomb-sights of lion staircase into their aircraft nation claiming to have an Korea, their average age is 33 today's high attitude slying.

the target may be Moscow, Inter

Ballistic und most have families of two Crews are on the "alert" 3 For this is a base which Missile.

three children, They are week at a time when they live regards Itself as nways at war.

banter serious men, dedicated men, completely on the base, 11/17 1 doesn't say at wor with

release whom-and its name "Operation or jargon about this sort of war power to destroy the world.

minutes from tac 932s. Modern Wallpapers, eurtains with 1 Reflex Action" Is reminder (an aircraft is just an aircraft

silk-screen known atom bomb is and an

pallern of that the principle behind SAC is simply as "the weapon"), they

B520. television huge whole paychology__of

zets, chess That someone has to hit America

ressione this or one of its allies first. But this have their moments. "My last tying has changed," says Cap games, briefing

America's auclear counter landing was smooth ar a paint tain

looking back is the setting and these are the panch, all set to be continuous brush,

Commander an bombing missions over ways that the idle but tense

World strin- Germany in

Wor 11. time of being on the alert" is and obliterating--and hobody is Major David O'Sullivan

passed, kidding himself you

Several times during can play tered as a B52 landed with an "You cannot

the week the siren will start this game with dùmmy bombs. alarming series of bumps and sibility like this lightly."

the heller-ekeller, that may und in North Africa or with o nonstop turn-round flight over Britain.

A

Aircraft

"The

Joe Deries,

take a

The Pill Britain

needs most

S the nation enters the tenth year of

2

its "free" drug orgy, Sir John Charles. the Government's chief doctor, issues warning about tranquillisers, the mind- pills which allay anxiety, rollove restless- ness, and damp down mental turmoil.

His fear that the regular use of these drugs may ultimately injure the body may be justified.

But he has surely missed the major menace of the mind-pill -the danger that many of the nation's most creative intellects will (ranquilliso themselves Into sterile contentment,

There could be no better Ilustration of what I mean than a current US, medical advertisement which claims: "If tho

who murdered Abraham Lincoln had previous- ly been treated with tran- qulilisers History might have been different."

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I say the world might have been different If these content-

ment capsules had been avail- able for Francis Drake, Clive, Captain Cook, Isaac Newton. Faraday, Beethoven, Disraeli, and a host of others Whose achievements derived from compulsive restlessness,

ย

The emotions which are now medically in disrepute-nxiety, resticasness,

irritability—have been the mainspring of men's fest efforts.

I is the men of turbulence,

not the men of tranquillity, who have accomplished most who will shape the future.

and

What this nation needs is

20

by

LESPOTI

CHAPMAN

PINCHER

I warn

you now

-we are

soothing away the will to succeed

healthy young men at University College, London.

Some were given the tran-

quillisers, others a dummy drug. All then tackled a difficult task to test co-ordination between hand and mind.

The experiment revealed that

formance.

more anxiety, snore restlessness, though the drug reduced appre- mare irritability. The doctors should not be offering us, tran- lension it also impaired per- qulisers but "pitalisers" pils designed to stimulate bodies to activity and to rid our minds of any feeling

of con- tentment.

The danger

Worse still, it reduced our

the

Bub

level of aspiralion"-the

belief that ho could cet's succeed in the test. This surely means that the regular usc of the drug reduces ambition,

STAN affect

methyl- of human subjects pentynol on faced with a difficult task is to

BY demping down the are make them perform worse and

of violent mind

Jess,"

De Steinberg

In the minds patients transquilisers are of reports. Immense value in the treat- After testing another widely ment of frani mental illness. prescribed tranquilliser, called benactyzine, DT Beresford The danger la that they may Davies of Cambridge found that not seem Σα also damp down the fire in the though it does nation's belly just when it impair the quality of thinking. should be roaring loudest. 1 do it slows down the speed of not think the Sputnik-happy thinking. Russians are taking many mind- If we deliberately reduce the pills.

specă of our thinking in the coming battle tor expurls, we sc the The excessive quantity of shull wake up to

Into tho tranquillisers being prescribed Russians receding

with the nation's by family doctors shows that distance they are not all going to economic trousers, patients with frunk disorders, In these tranquilliser Investi- gations the people who felt They are being swallowed by tensed up, anxious, and irritable the harassed the ill-tempered, put up the best performance. the highly-spirited, the over. There is a simple explanation worked, and those who only of why these think they are overworked.

unpleasant emo-

tions are associated with * a speed-up of the human This trend was less alarming inchinery-they are due the while the makers could claim production of the powerful that tranquilisers do not inter- internal stimulant adrenalin by fere with drive, Bul careful glands located near the kidneys. Investigations have now proved - Exportmonísi by Dr Weil-

Malherbe that this clan is false.

01 the Runwell Hospital. Eanox, show that Dr Honnah Steinberg- end adrenalin is a natural mental Dr S. E. Dicker, have tested the piimulant and that tranquillisers most widely used Brilli tran- reduce the amount of it circulat= Gullilwer, methyl-pentynol, oning in the blood.

MYSTERIOUS

They do not know, patll they are in the air, where the great bomber, with its tremendous burden, is going. A mysterious guardian force, they range the world, long-throated and remote, suckied by the massive. flying Cankers that enable them to dy distances immensely longer than their six thousand mile limit (aerial refuelling of SAC bombers took place on an average of once every three minutes this year).

The threat is wan but their purpose is peace. Brigadier- general Donald Saunders, com- manding SAC al Westover, puts Il tergely: "This is the most for- midable force In military history

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