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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1958.

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News From Britain

H BOMB

?

does Britain feel

Habout having

If-bomb?

the

On a decibel count you might get the dea the nation wholeheartedly wanted to be rid of the thing. As ever, the "antis" much more

'C 50

vociferous than the "pros." So far, no one has staged a "We Want the HI-Bomb" demonstration. There have been more of the other kind than I care to count.

Find

The Daily Express, which

been

polling. public opinico on the question, came up with the answers. those questioned. $3 per cent agreed that Britain should con- tue H-bomb tests, 383% per cent thought not, and 10% per cent did not know.

Forty-eight per cent thought Britain should go on muking the 11-bomb, 4 per cent were myninst this and, again, 10% per cent did not know.

Br if these results de- anonstrated the belief of the majority in the need for Britain's possession of nuclear weapons, a 11. question on the same poll revealed an equally significant trend.

The question was: "Do you approve or disapprove of the set. ting up of American rocket bases In Britain?"

Against the 34 prr eent who approved and the '11 per cent who didn't know were ranged

[POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

"And why would poor outd

reland not be having an H-bomb of her own?"

55 per cent who disapproved,

LAS. FORCES PLAYING RELO KFEL GOING

IF YOU THINK YOU'VE SEEN A ROCKET YOU AIRI.

There is a domand by the natives that missile basos should be manned by R.A.F. personnel. Vary woll

Modern Midas

Rags to Riches 3

by John Cottrell

JHENEVER un individual progresses from raga to

WHENEVER an individu, progreso trause of good

luck, or because he has the capacity for hard and concen- trated work, or because he has the touch of genius. Only very rarely do these three factors occur together: when they do, one has a story of fantastic success the story of a man like Aristotle Socrates Homer Onassis.

Onassis — “Ari” to his

He made £100 million in thirty years

conditions improved.

pool, dance floor, einen.a. and Onassis's next big step was private hospital.

to have his first all-tanicer built in Sweden, Shrewdly, ho foresaw that there would be time

freighters.

Onassis spends much of his aboard the yacht. He snow and water, riding, dancing and swimming.

more money in all-tankers that also enjoys ski-ing on

closest friends became a of the American Consulate, dollar millionaire at the age who disguised him as 1 of 25 and his fortune is now sailor and placed him on conservatively estimated at board a United States de- £100,000,000.

He started alroyer.. his career with only £60. On reaching Greece, ho He was born in comfort helped to negotiate for his able circumstances; but in father's release and even- 1922, when he was 15, his tually those of the Onassis was raised to send him to four of them up until trade for every cabin, a swimming family was reduced to near- family who still lived were South America. poverty by the Turks inva- reunited. Aristotle's father, sion of his native Smyrna. the only surviving male

That was in September His father was thrown into adult, found himself with 1923. When he arrived in Add together the free and concentration camp and 16 women and children in Buenos Aires, the hope of he saw relatives hanged in his care. Before the inva- the Onassis family had just a public square. Ile had sion he had been a wealthy £50 to his name and was something like this In the already lost his mother at and important tobacco mer only 16 years old.

In 1938 and then another War been the age of five.

There hus Now he could not chant.

very came along-not this time to without hope,

help,

the to litte luck in

success bring the Onassis family ruin, Onassis but to make its fortune. Gov-

Sportsman though he is, ho 20 many depen- story of Aristotle

Casino. ex ernments were willing to pay never gambles at the and one of the fow

well for the delivery of much- Like ali millionaires, who stay રી. negative So the family decided to amples is of

needed supplies and Onassis millionaires, he has learned Aristotle, who kind. At Buenos Aires, he placed his fleet at the disposal never to trust to luck. The "Ban 130 H-bomb" constituted about two-thirds gamble on brigade has some heavy artillery.of the city's population, had received n.n excellent tried to sign on a ship as of the Allies,

or forced to education and Was were killed

the a sailor, but was reject he came out of the war with

£10,000,000, His latest salvo included this flee the country. Aristotle brightest of its

Had he taken that ship shot: "The supposed great de-escaped arrest with the help members.

he might have missed the path to his millions, though there is little doubt that he would have prospered at almost any trade.

ings and what's the answer? From where Island, it looks.

present stale of blernational uffairs most Britons believe their country must be as well-armed

as the other great powers, but Escaped In Disguise maintain

The Greek seltiers, who

Talo for as Britain is cun cerned a British Anger should

be on the tailgater.

Amons! the Liggest BUIES S philosopher Bertrand Russell.

torrent (the H-bomb) is an 11-

uston not only because neither

alde can use it without disaster

to itself, but also because of the appalling risk of an unintended war brought on by some mis- understood incident."

Britions, A lot of ordinary however, ree it this way: Neither side, could use 17-bombs without disaster to itself-provided that both sides have the bomb, And that fear of disaster is a bulwark against war. But if one side surrenders the bomb-and this is what Lord Russell wants Britain to do--the other side need fear no disaster to itself it it chooses to use the bomb against a nation which cannot retaliate in klad.

Feeling Jaded?

.

WHENEVER I Icel faded 1

into

refresh myself by dipping called, publiezllon a.

"Goods Chargeable With Pur chase Tax," authored by the

Commissioners of Customs and Excise.

Almost every one of its 06 closely-printed pages is good for a laugh.

Take page 50. There we dis- cover that false beards and moustaches are subject to tax, but not if ench

hair is shaped, "separately waved or

threaded to a

and septrutely

backing, Cosigned to be gummed

to the face." (Anarchists, foreign

Bpics. assassina and

criminal fugitives, please note.) that On page 84 wo learn while ll kinds of ishing hookú are taxable, an excoption in made in the case of "conger vel books with or without swivels,"

I shall leave you pondering the apocini qualifications of con- ger cels.

Peter Burgeyne

SHIPS

denis.

younger ed. Enough money

keep them in the family.

Shipping magnato Aristotle Onassis, who married London-born 17-year-old Athena Livanos, daughter of shipping magnate Stavros -Livanos, just before rival shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos married Athena's juistar: Eugenio.

in

His first tanker was delivered

that It is sald

Never Cámbles

One of the richest men in the world, he has a beautiful young wife, two children, and At the end of the war, con- enough money to keep himself trary to the opinion of experts, in luxury for the rest of his Onassis judged rightly that the life.. demand for oil would increase.

He bought 10 surplus war But money-making is in his tankers and freighters for as blood. So he stul fics about 1le as 20,000,000 dollars and 100,000 miles a year conduct- since then, a building race ing his business personally and As it was, Aristote took a

Stavros Niarchos, is always he has two million dol- small room in a cheap boarding with

rival and brother-in-law, ho lars handy lest he should want house and enrolled for a course

switchboard operation. has had built, some of the to make a quick deal.

Aristotle Despite language difficulties, he biggest tankers the world has

Socrates Homer mastered the job in three weeks ever seen,

made his fourth and started work as

& right

famous as the first operator.

Worked 21 Hours A Day

have the

first

Here we example of his great capacity

for hard and concentrated work.

Onassis has Despite his great prosperity, naine us Onassis remained little-known three. outalde the shipping world un- in few years ago when he gained world-wide publicity by buying a controlling interest in a large section of Monte Carlo. including the Casino and several hotels,

He became known as the

The young Greck allowed man who "bought" the bank at himself only three hours sleep Monte Carlo and he did it a day. He worked at his just to find room for a head- switchboard from 11 p.m. to

7 am; then from 10a.m. to quarters for his many

panies,

Speaks Four Languages

-com-

Onassis is now a naturalisedi

in

11. p.m., he worked to establish himself in the tobacco business which he knew so well.

Operating from las Utile bedroom as a self-established importer of Oriental tobacco, he made in just two years £2,000.- enough to give up his night work. In three years, he was Argentinian, but he might clafm with JustJacation to be a citizen worth £10,000.

By 1028 the youth was no well of the world. For his ships fly estabilahed that the Greek the lugs of several different

has offices Goverment commissioned him countries; ho to negotiate a trade deal with many lands; and he speaks Argentina.

J reward he Greek, Spanish, French was appointed Greek Conul- Engilsh fluently. General in Bursa Aires-at Now in his early fifties, the the age of 22,

fabulous Oungals lives in great At:20, Onassis was a dollar luxury. At Manto Carlo he millionalto and displaying real entertaina royalty, world gendur for business Aututely choosing the right moment, he statesmen a great as Sir Win

aton Churchill, fim. stara os turned to shipping in 1931 elusive as Garbo. when the depression had caused prices to drop to fantastically: A few years ago he had low jovels. For 100,000 dollars, bullt a private yacht

As

and

which

ho was able to', Inty az cost, a cool million pounds. The dreighters which had cost largest and most luxurious fri $0,000,000 when new. He laid the world, it ne a bathroom

paillard

ROLEX

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