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THE CHINA MATC FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1958.

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**If Kelvingrove had voted for the 1945 vintage 1 could have understood It-but the 1958!!!...'

NEWS FROM BRITAIN

NXIOUS

The aftermath

of Kelvingrove

by PETER BURGOYNE

times these the offensive on the Rent Act, dropped the South

for Britain's Conserva- Explain its tive purty.

Carolina They

benents, eventual bomb-the six-let 13 47. though they may be And be are under the direct control of ready io meet Sociallet tear- Strategic Air Command Head- jerkings about the eviction quarters at Omaha, Nebrasca. As I write, their Central victims of the Rent Act with Office surgeons are sharpen- statistics and case histories of ing the scalpels for the the thousands who were home- post-mortem grove.

Kelvingrove

ANGRY DOCTORS

the on accommodation DAILY Britain's doctors any."

less because of the stagnaling Kelvin-, effect the old rent restrictions

had market. the ia

This, however, involves Glasgow constituency, held

operation and, public relations until his recent death by so far, the Torica public Walter Elliot, a brilliant relations have left much to be and well-loved Tory.

desired.

Kelvingrove is also, the LOOSE BOMBS third constituency to be

lost by the Torius since Mr

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Harold Macmillant became THE bomb lock mechanism in

that H-bomber flying over

Prime 'Minister fourteen South Carolina could hardly months ago.

have "malfunctioned" at a more significant time from the British point of view.

First reaction is that the

It happened slap bang In the Rent highly controversial

middle of a nationwide debate Act (in large measure A n the question of nuclear relaxation of

general and government weapons in

in British skies of imposed restrictions on presence

American H-bombers, in parti- house rents) is to blame.

cular,

of order by the Speaker.

the

way. large and vocal slice of them-have been getting angrier about a series of B.B.C. televi aion features on medical science.

Mut-

The series, called "your Life in Their Hankis," states grap- hically how doctors and geons deal with.their problems. T. V. films have taken viewers into operating theatres to watch the surgeons at work.

major

In essence, these doctor argue that the serles panders lo morbid curiosity ond, at worst, can be highly dangerous.

This week their arguments A tragically backed were coroner's court heard how a women who committed suicide had become, convinced the hod cancer afler watching the T. V programme on the disease,

Socialist M.P.'s immediately And a Surrey doctor told the made a bid to debate the South British Medical Journal how Carolina Ineldent in the House four of his patients had folated

а watching televised of Commons and were ruled out while

heart operation. One of them had been burned 'when she fell Al the same ilme

Premier face first into the replace. Macmillan was being assured by the U.S. Government that even Nor are many of the doctors Tlak Di an satisfied with the B.B.C.'s worn- the "negligible"

H-drop would be ing that nervous people should accidental completely ruled out as a result not watch the programme, This

A being very warning has morbid fascination for impressionable people, they say.

There is every indication that this is indeed so. For the Socialists have certain ly used the Rent Act as & big stick to batter their way to by-election victory.

With another key by election-at Torrington in Devon-only a couple of weeks away, this leaves issued. the Tory strategists with a tough problem.

of new Instructions

answer

THE GORBALS

the TN British bookshops you can

This, plus the fact that there Was major nuclear explosion in Carolina, provides the Primo The Rent Act must stay. Minister with a good platform

would be 1:0m To repeal it

which to political suicide. Anyway, critics,

still buy a novel called "No the Tories believe in its

City" But all the signs are that he Mean

The City is convinced will

under Glasgow and the title draws Its nevertheless come virtues and are

book's locale, that time will justify their strong, emotion-charged pressure irony from the faith to the electorate. But to ground the British-based H- the Gorbals.

bombers. in the meantime there are by-elections to be fought in

ATOM-SPY FUCHS SPEAKS-2

The most damaging spy in history-that was how American security chiefs described Klaus Fuchs, What has happened to that brilliant brain in the eight years he has been in prison? CHAPMAN PINCHER reports...

When he gets out . IT WILL BE

EAST GERMANY FOR HIM

WHAT

will happen to Dr Klaus Fuchs, the atom-spy, when he is freed from Wake- field Guel, after serving nine and a half years of his 14-year sentence, in July Fuchs's closest friend in prison,

19597

Brian Donald Hume, ex-convict who was claims he knows the answer:-

"Klaus will go behind the Iron Curtain, probably to East Germany, to join his 84-year-old father in Leipzig, or possibly to Czechoslovakia,

"He fully realises that since the Home Office took away his nationality the police are powerless to prevent him leaving the country.

How atom-spy Fuchs explained the secrets of the universe...on his prison laundry list

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on a spiritual existence "He has always felt that he carry was cheated by being gaoled be- when the material body dles.

His father, preacher, sent cause he sincerely believed he

book ho had written would not be prosecuted if he ma

called "The Similarity confessed.

to Christianity," "But the withdrawal of his Marxism

interesting, naturalisation after he had Fuchs sold it was

of but he was not impressed. helped the Federal Bureau

He tells other prisoners a his mathematics master was so Investigation to track down his American

Hc confederates--Harry story about a Negro convict who upset that he wept. quotes the

that fact was true there Gold, David Greenglass, and the naked bin it

in the Einstein took a personal Interest Rosenberg-seemed vicious and were millions of stars

universe.

one of his mathematical When Fuchs Loid in utterly stupid.

Hume believes that Fuchs him there were the Negro snid: papers on relativity, and clálms that Einstein personally put his Then the Bible is would have gone over to the Commurists in any case to start because it says "God took one selentine life which is day just to make the earth and four days to make ali likely to be . impossible in only

thost stars." Britain.

Much of the work which. Fuchs did on the atom, bomb and the H-bomb is still graded "lop secret." But what the security authorities fear mosi a prisoner the U.S. reselion If he joins the remission Communists.

n new

Left alone

wrong

time forward for work on the atom bomb.

As a militant anti-Nazi-NG whole inmlly had been perse- cuted in Germany-Fuchs was strongly in favouf of making the Arst alom bombs, especially

Fuchy has so far been a model when he learned that Hitler's full scientists had started an atomio

and

carned

for good conduct, project, Hume' says the almost urani-

But he believes that Britain stayed out of the and spent tho As he is now a German again mous altitude of prisoners and should have

staff is that Fuchs is bemb business he has the right to go to either prison

"human, sociable, likable, and money on atom-power research. "Britqin mado the bomb, purely East or West Germany.

There is no possibility that sincere,"

a stand to show the world she is still has taken But he

a great Power," he told Hume. the authorities will be able to

prisoners restore his British nationality against both

would enable officials when he believed it was

warranted. a move which thern to withheld his passport.

Thus when Derek Bentley was make Fuchs

port In the

could easily

money in Britain. In the notes hanged for his which Hume has

conversation

and

silence.

Fuchs and shother prisoner

The other Fuchs

Chess games

J

How has Fuchs managed to

kept of his murder of a policeman, the shop keep his mind as alert as Humo with Fuchs in in which Fuchs worked downed maintains it is? He has worked "He tools and observed two minutes out a system of applying mathe malles to economica so that prison

this entry:

booms and depressions can be refused a lucrative offer from u

Hume, claims Fucha:

current U.S., prophesied the

Documents supplied by Humra'

mathematical studies and put- how that Fuchs was doing ting up Sputniks in 1958-long before the satellite programma Was announced. At this time ho Fuchs spent much time teach- was clerk in the prison laundry.

convlets. He also taught Humo in science to Hume and other to speak German and to play

He reads much. Shakespeare, plays the violin, and hos When Fuchs was in Stafford written some poetry, pathetic in Gaol-up to April 1953-ho style and conient, of which this threatened to. Ro on hunger verse is typical strike get back books which Through the bare twinkle the - had been taken away from him. atara. When he arrived in Wakefied in imitable numbera, Gaol he refused to do the intelli- And from afar a silvery star gence tests along with the other Touched a face in deepest

film company who wrote in asking for the rights for a nim refused to stop work, Fuchs forecast,

claimed that he was not going on his life."

that to get himself involved in any trade recession. The authorities belleve Fuchs may fear reprisals from crguments over the impetuous the Communists for the help he actions of a brainless and head- cave the F.B.I. in breaking up strong young fool,"

in prisoner was beaten up. the Russian

ring spy

was left alone. America.

Prisoners do not despise Fucks But Hume is confident that

although his trenchery threaten en their lives. They think he spied for what be belleved were good reasons..

Fuchs is not afraid. "He knows the Communists will forgive him so long as they can get the us of his brain," he says,

While doing no more than blating that Fuchs la still Communist at beart, Hume's notes state that he is still an atheist and materialist. He does not believe that anything

Fuchs, the frightened man of Wakefield he fears U.S. wants to kill him

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By

KLAUS FUCHS, the

CHAPMAN PINCHER atom spy, is a fright ened man. He fears that

which the Act could again pressure,

Socialista will use this os a unvarnished story of the razor-next year, try him under its

be a deadly issue. to do?

Communist

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can

Mr

supplies these details of Fuchs's everyday life in Wakefield Osol; Fuchs, known to all in Wake-

gnol in 1950. These charges could carry the death penalty.

But the British authorities consider it inconceivable that the American Government authorities feared they might the Americans will seek to ex- Written In the hungry

handed over. reach book astounded will extradite him when he escape together, solze an ait tradite him or that he will be

craft and the Of course, he will resist the thirties,

And, of course, the and frightened readers with its is freed from Wakefield Gaol territory.

Fuchs, all a dedleated Com- munlat, regards Russia as Utopia What weapon at the next by-election, gangsters of Glasgow.

laws, and execute him.

for scientists. That is the chief reason mede tho Incidentally, it

The Governor of Wakefield Britain: about 45 Gorbals one of the world's most why he is determined to get allowed Fuchs to spend a half- feld as "Doc," starts his day at

publicised slums, right up in behind the Iron Curtain as day with his father, Professor 0.15 when he rises from front with New York's Bowery quickly as possible.

Emil Fuchs, who visited him spring bed which is his privilege and the Old Port of Morsellies.

It is also the main reason from Leipzig last year, and they as "stroke."

to Each prisoner is allowed 10 The Gorbels became the why he is so worried about the discussed a 'possible move

East Germany.

pictures or pin-ups, but the synonym for poverty, violence, loss of his British nationality. degradation and dirt.

He believes, that as a German Fuchs is now the Governor's walls of his sleeping cell

will be casier do the "stroke," a prison torm laken bare.

from boating and' meaning that

It is estimated that there The only obvious course is 10 are switch

from the defensive to aircraft

ZANIES

iri

of the type which

john. Glashan.

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the

lost 14

Mr X was released three, weeks ago after serving a long

Culture? Yes

the

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Ho works bard and goes

to the

A recently-condueled survey Americans to extradito him. of the Gorbals lies shown how

The facts were disclosed the he has the most privileged and immense trouble to help

He has organised Saturday tremendously the whole place other day by Mr X, an ex- responsible position among the poorly educated. has changed since

days teacher who has been Fuchs'a quisoners,

the night theatro sinee

FROL. when the polleemen patrolled in closest filend - for the

acquired a tape recorder. He pries and the ultimate argument months,

records good radio drama and was an open ruzor,

plays it back after tea on Satur- He is in charge of the educa- day to the 30 or so prisoners Survey-workers

-found

an sentence. Не contacted the tion office and organises 50 who, ko hin, do not watch TV. almosphere of peace and prog Daily Express when he read the clauses in subjects from science le drew up the constitution of perity that would have scored story of Fuchs's gaol life - to musical appreciation.

the gaol's new film club, Utopian twenty years ago. They plied by ex-prisoner Brian

Fuchs belleves that mhay Fuchs is regarded as spoke to a young housewife who Donald Hume, printed on

this Americans

that think

the corruptible. As the "giroke" the acnt her daughter to school

Russians

would still not have has opportunities to Viddle"-- every day by taxi; 10 an old man page yesterday and today...

the H-bomb but for

col his trade tobacco for food, or whore son was on holiday -- in

Clean shirts a week California; to a family who had

authorities were too lenient stood of one.. But he never just shipped to Canada a herd

with him, in not meting the docs. of Shetland ponies worth more

The only me he has been In than

To that story - Mr X - adda death penalty, which, wag, in £10,000 watch Asery

these detail

-fact imponade under British trouble was when 12 Cypriot ownod.

Fuchs believes that Hume was law, for his crime,

political prisoners arrived in

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Utopia? Maybe treachery. And that the British three.

in

Now to

top off this hoppy transferred from Wakefield to Root inquiries showed WakeBald. They looked on Fuchs change the Corbals is to have Dartangor because their friend- that Tucha could be.tried under with favour as anil British. He

worried the most expensive municipal | ship.

the face-lift in Brilal & 13 million muthorities. Huma "worth of ihr

plane and Fuchs

security American law on charges which responded by taking them indèr код Др a were not laid against him when his wing. The Governor 10- thinks the he was sentenced to 14%, godzy perfchanded him.

chess, One error

convlets.

slumber.

Fuchs is

of proud. kis A lonely ray played soothingly academic attainments and, told with tunes of peaceful harmony. Hume that he had only got on When a dream flew through the sum wrong in the whole. of his bars. schooldays. When this happened Unto the elfvery sky.

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