1959-01-05 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIE, MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1959.

Forget the Sputniks,

these

BRITISH

RITISH scientists at

Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, can now con- centrate on work which makes Sputnik-tracking trivial by comparison.

For In from of these

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by PETER FAIRLEY

As the Spaulks and recketa go, telestrums of Laration food in. So de visitors.

An the rockets conte again, mynny of these men give And they are a sigh of relet.

her than when the Im cox has enunched down this einder track 14 Let bole theloz

garden, his cricket, his piano- and his telescope.

flecting signals from the long- sphere. Its behaviour is erratic. But one day we may be able to

the give

telecommunications chaps a chart, showing the best frequencies to use at different

times."

He says: "I am an agitator. time on the down

I have had to agitate hard 10 Ret what I wanted. But now it is exceeding my frenma in every respect,"

The men of Jodrell Bauck work with almost monastic devo- ilon. When a group is allocated wives, telescope, food, sleep are forgotten, For several days

the they live on afte. Discoveries, often giving au insight into the mysteries of ervation itself. pour in,

Then "work" can begin again. They are young, these m

Their That are a luappy team.

Profesor Bernard Lovell, as kuply, dynande mun of 47. ually 12 erampled tweer

loves is family, his

1 V

ROUND-UP

DEHYDRATED CHOPS

MIE Real Naval Supply School at Chatham, Keni, where 200 Cintak and tugberties Captalt. Kenneth Furnhill,

Tak sed, to ty tax surt del dicated pork chops,

captain-1-

ef arge says The dehydrated fund, which is not yet on sale to the pyla, potted at the Ministry of Agriculture Experimental Stan at Alerteen. We had a deliydrated experimental meni re- sendly, Bret fu: VIPs Trom the Admiralty and the Ministry and I would defy anybody to tell it was not fresh it was excellent

The pork We had song, and steaks, pork chops, cablage and penn.

They are soaked in water chopes are frather weight when dried for i few minutes and become exactly like the real thing. Heve this will be the food of the future.

I e- itsast Improve- mer on the warlane type of dried food, like dried potato. It

amount of space and

saves an enormo

weight in a ship, μs well as refrigeration, auf the nutritional value is far superior to Ward stoff."

CHANGE OF MIND

AW 41

THE A League of the British Empire have announced that In expressed from al overwhelming opposition sting of the aviation work" to the proposed design of the R.34 memorial aí London Auport, sponsored by the League, the Council

ahead with the project' of the Langue have decided not to gu The proposed menuria: described by critics un a "pterodactyl on It stands stalls is but of a two-headed bird with wings spread.

Group

on two spiky legs with an unexplained bulge in its middle. Captain glas Bader, one of the crities, said it reminded him of Lord Brabazon, the pioneer aviator, a "purgman preying malls."

"Frightening and horrible"

ralled the design a "diseased Junddock.

The Air Lengue may sand Lord Walerus in 8 House of Lurts. now seek designs from other sculptors. In defence of their first approval of the rejected design they say it bad the approval of the Royal Fine Art Commission.

PARABLE OF TALENTS

PARABLE of the talents, told in the New Testament, has been

put into action by 34 parishioners ut Aldeburgh, Suffolk, to raise money for Bury St Ebounds Cathedral. Each began with, a The result a total of and promised to increase 11. "caputni

A woman ritsed £10. 10s. by making coconut ice and of 1374

A man acted as a endale at week-ends, seling it at t Another woman tinder £22 by orginising bridge parties.

WINS TRIP

MISS MM. Pats, 29, of Dulwich, South-east London,

who

i startent of philosophy, has won a free trip to Victoria, Australia, under the British Memorisi Fellowship. The award, is valued at £1,250 The Fellowship were established after the Victoria for "saving civilisation in the Second World War." Fach year three or four British graduates and other young people go to Vielorla for a year, with all ex- penses pl.

war by the citizens of

BROOCH ON SHOW

NE of the Queen's exhibits at "The Ageless Diamond" exhibi-

laining two parts of this fained Cullinan diemand, the largest dia- This is the first time this Item jewellery will and we found. be on display to the public. The exhibition, will be the most valuable collection of diamonds ever brought together under one roof 14 will be open from January 9 to January 28. Three other exhints of the Queen's personal jewellery are Queen Alexandra's tara, the 21 South African diamonds given to the Queen by the Union on her 21st birthday, and the Willumsen Pink diamond,

ONE of the xnden, this month will be the co-

THEATRE

KING'S THEATRE

9.30 P.M.

From a bunch of Army huts und some ex-WD. equipment he hus tranformed Jodrell

Bank into a huge circle

well- Laboratories. equipped

lecture ulocks n:odern dorinitories, offices and canteens.

313

Ets first handful has swollen to a staff of 12 and 40 research student Over all, Professur Larvil keeps tight control. "For- tunately," he says, "we are still

anall enough to argue our work end problems over a cup

of

1er."

In family

Publicity always spotlights the 1*!!『*LE! "You are asking me to stick may neck out," Te N13' often But he rarely holls back.

Others are more than happy Men ke To bug the shadows Dr G. Davies, lanky, dark, i, self-conscious air and a brain of gdhining cuirula 110m

m: the mollcian who on- ived the cominster "brain" in the telescope control room.

And Dr John Evans, only 25. married recently to Pro- aml fessor Lovell's former Vecretary in as well to keep it in the family wife is fuerant of

absence your way."

more

that

"

"Our problem is not how

Professor And out ucts," said

with Lovell, "but how to cope all the analysis needed

after- Time Is warda.

aur

enemy.

ta

always

Dr Stanley Evans, who left

Bunk Jodrell

Lo joln RO Antarctic expedition and later strongly. rejoined, put it more "Jodrell Bank is saturated," he got too said. The pace has hot. It la crowding out original thought. There is a growing tendency to observe the obvious ---and miss what Hes hidden underneath.”

Evans is a bellever in leisure heljdag original thought. But leisure is the rarest commodity at Jodrell Bank.

Bestden probing the universe and planets, tracking Sputniks and rockets for which the tele- scope was never intended-the staff have to train the students.

And Enked with time its the of money. "Our Job problen should be to think out what our ntle black boxes must do-not sald to make them ourselves,” Evans. "We should be in a posl- tion to tell others to make them, but for that we need mones."

afford to get we could athers to make them, it

would twice as

much Dr Evan already has bounced give us nearly

and ime." tl volre to the mcon will give

The back. Soon he

the world the first answers to question: "What Hes under the

kid around Vow?"

Men like R. Hanbury Brown, the rudar expert, of whom one of the team sald! "He hales the spectacular. He can remain aloor. But because he is learn- ɗelach klincelf, be ed how to

has contributed observations of fur greater fundamental in portance than any of us."

The ideal

Olhors Bro not in the STUTI position, John Thomson, 20, the stocky <x-Cambridge man who work in "Ti Moon Hut." Ho said. "A scientists ideal is have his own little piece of apparatus. Bul in radio- astronomy the scientist is mo ut & cor.

my own

Unique

is

Manchester University appealing for £150,000. Until is found, and more, the men of Jodrell Bank wlli go on making apparatus with their hands.

They ask for very ltlic, these men to whom night or day difference. Their means tile

cars are usually vintage, their corduroys buggy their hair sometimes unbrushed. But their

facen often-hoggard

bold cager light.

an

The sound pletures they re- ceive come from billions of bil- Ilons of miles out in space. The radio-signals have taken almost the as long to reach Earth as total ure of the Universe.

What these men witness today collisions of galaxies, births of stars-happened millions of years ago.

"I am responsible for the telescope og far as half-way down the mast. My cog must Who would not be absorbed turn smoothly or the big events by such a prospect? As Profes- will not be a success. But ikh sor Lovell said: "These studies to get back to

little all have a

bearing

basic Job.

philosophy and religious belief. i have no doubt that, in the future, many long-held convle- tions and dogmas are going to be shaken to the roots."

on

Will 1959 be Mountbatten's year?

WHILE the picked chassis of the Christmas turkey W

made its final appearance in Britain's small homes last month, a handsome, dark-jowled man was sitting flown to luncheon.

Around him, on grand pianos and against yard-high Wedgwood vases, the greetings cards still stood in ranks.

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year. From Presalenis, from royalty, came the wishes which humbler folk also exchange,

But to that one man the seasonal wishes brought a spoela! message. He was telling himself; "This is going to be the happiest New Year of all." And 1950, he is certain, is For that man was Eart Mount batten. going to be his year. The year when he at last takes over from Sir Wi- lam Dickson. Arst and stop-gap holder of the new post, an Britain's Navy, Army, and Air Force.

Earl Mountbatten has good reason to be certain.

Cook

1959.

2754121 A lesser

might forward anxiously to There

General could be Election. change of Governi ment

A ke-341 raigh пані "Would the new fellows give me the Job?"

Supremo of

by aamuumam;3:15172190NS PERCY HOWARD

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But

not.

Ear Mountbatten. He does not worry about the He knows chances of politics. the odds too well.

planned Was

involved the milliary care was more than 10 years sened ago,

For Bruin the defensive preparations needed to ensure war was beginning end. that it went smoothly. Under Admiral Mountbatten a massive ruli against Dieppe.

those

Field Marshal Montgomery has since described how ustrously

plana

als- were

carried out.

Close ally

is

Already the Tory Minister of Defence, Mr Duncan Sandys, Mountbatten's close ally.

fo his memoirs he has explained how the date for the raid was reportedly 1stponed Well, becmaKE

of bad weather, how Is seen the troops

fully having been

"scaled" in their chat briefed and It is the Suf- ships were thin disembarked

Mr and returned to their comps. Socialist

the Socialists? And nole

the figure who

chummy frequently in with the eart folk lorry-driver's

Brown), George Shadow Defence Minister.

5011.

friend

Do not blame

for

Mr Brown's

supposing

ihat,

whoever

Losca the

nuxt

General Election, the Mount

The blame?

Montgomery writes: "It was reasonable to expect that it was now a common subject of con- verration in billets and pubs in So what a lovely prospect the South of England... con-

batter party is going to win.

1950 offers him.

Already Lord

sidered the operation was can- celled, and I turned my atten- Mountbattention to other matters."

He

www

not

has had some honours. He is a

But the

operation K.G., PC, G.C.S.1., G.C.V.O., K.C.B. and D.5.0.

hne cancelled. Although the Germans the Order of the Seraphim of hard every chance to learn what went Sweden, and the Order of was

the rakt ocrning, Whlie Bephant of Siam. Fifteen ahead. In August, on the cliffs uther foreign orders 1 omit for and promenades of Dieppe, the

Canadians suffered appallingly. space.

Who was to blame?

His decision

Dow

co-ordinating

Mountbatten.

WAS Admiral

There were volces which adviced that the moment should when winter come in India's pusstens were not at over heat. Others said that greater reserves of troops were needed to stop comunumal bloodshed.

Mountbatten decided against his initiallyn such advice, partition took place at mid- night on August 14, 1947.

that withlin The result was slx weeks the sub-continent witnessed more bloodshed than

cen It had seen during two turies of British rule.

For sbx weeks the were and axes knives busy night and day. As a lightly-defended" train full of refugees rattled slowly through West Punjab a scream- ing mass descended on It,

Cummings

Aller

1cw hours 1,300 is still with the designern. And men, women, and children were at the Admiralty, it is being salti lying dead in the smashed that he will go down in history

not as currlages.

The man who brought aton power to the feet but as in town, after town the horror the First Soa Lord who made wza repeated

the Navy wear white cap tops all the year round.

Highest post

and

Why then is it so certain that he will go on to become Britain's In those few hot days, as Defence Supremo? Sir

Churchill has First, Field-Marshal Mont-

His detractors might suggest cs.mated, the people of India romery blames the poor co-

ord

halt a that the push and prestige Pakistan suffered ordination behind the raid. million casualties. Compare which he has lahtrited from the The man who was doing the with that the total figure of royal Battenbergs has propelled 412,000 dead suffered by Britain, him inevitably upwards. But the Dalions,

the that cannot be the whole story. Colonics in the five years of the Second World War.

Who was to blame? It is diff to his capacity for inspiring the schemes,

Harbor cult to avoid the conclusion of wrikusleem:

an Mulberry tho Pakistan Mindster who cald much

which ho trad

to helped that "part of the blame, almost the whole blame," would fall on

apcaner (though they are silent abent his wartime scheme for Viceroy, Mountbatten.

making aircraft carriers out of wood-shavings and ice).

glory. But, for power and none of those honours can equal awaite the

which Mountain. For the job of Supremu អ something quite

The Montgomery blames the new. It gives powers which no

go ahead with the single man in Britain has over decision lo

no longer held in peace time since the time raid when secrecy

That decision existed. of Alfred the Great,

made by Admiral Mountbatten. Almost every section of Mont

book has provoked goncry's

the not But contradictions, section on Dieppe. The truth of the ventict on Mountbatten Mountbatten to his credit since goes without question.

The Supremo will be the The on his finger man with button. His will be effectively the Anal decision on tolasiles, on bombers, on strategy by alr, sea, and land.

In an age when a small mis- calculation in the choice of a single weapon could mean the death of a nation, on that one man's shoulders will fall the

Significant

wng

Thomson has "some rather Insiguificant aerials down the road." This month he will use them to glean all he can from satellites, about the ionosphere For the next three years or w-the "layer" above carth's so, the men of Jottrell Bank are atmosphere.

in a unique position. Their glant responsibility for the lives of all another August, live years later. radio-radar sci 2,000 tons

of

Osir

"Our discoveries often only stee) which can be pointed any- answer the scientist's thirst for where at the touch of a button knowledge," he said. "But oftens the only one in the world. they have practical value.

But others are already on the "For example, all world-wide way-in Australia and America. communications depend on re-

-London Express Service).

D'ART DU

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Now let us move forward to

What

theni

ochievements

has

In Apr 1955 he reached the highest post the Navy can offer.

Ho become First Ses Lord.

Admirers point to his wide- ranging talents and interests,

to

Judgment

oven

But there is one quality which Mounibaiten's ad- mirers havo rarely claimed It was a crucial moment for that he

in any possesses the Royal Navy. The submarine measure a quality which is all- Mountbatten was now Viceroy race was on Russia was bring- important when the lives of the British Ing her submarine feet up to miilikas could hang on a single That M vast burden for of India, Already

the massive total of more than decision, Flint quality is judo- Too vast, scrge would Government had decided on

independence and partition for 450 craft. America was development. *the mib-continent. The respon- ing Nautilus. But Britain was sub- for that decision did also planning an atomic Yet even if is necessary for sibility one man to carry the burden, is not Ile with Mountbatten, it right that the one man should bo Earl Mountbatten?

one man. Bay.

marine.

Yet two decisions. above all How Hos Mountbatten dono in were left effectively to him-and that urgent race? How far has Well, let us - examine his both reflect signently on his he hustled the Navy ahead into qualifications for the job. Judginent, as a military com- the atomic age?

marier, The first occasion when Louts."

The answer is that after his Mountbatten had many thou The first decisión Involved four yeace in charge. Dread Banda of lives committed to his the thing of partition. The nought, our atchile submare,

Can we afford a Supretpo without that exential quality? I do not believe we can,

1950 might be a happy year for Earl Mountbatten if he is given the post. But it could be a much happier year for Britain if the Government had had the courage to pass him over.

London Express Service,

Too Few Men For Latin Lovelies

THOUSANDS of shapely,

Italian beauties ́liave - a nightmarish problem! How

to find a husband. -

*days

By

HENRY THODY

Latin Lovelles these

The club# are called, "pink wake up walling. They know now Clube because du Hinly a that the odds are they will 'end pink-ribbon bow pinned on the up did maids.

front door indicaton wedding- fina, boon, arrangéd.

A

Giuseppe Busone, is having difficulty "placing” hits twenty- Boych year- old daughter. Carolina,

Giovanni Rollo, a clerk with

three suigle daughters, and schoolteacher Signor Bonino, father of two singio - giris, pro founder-members.

The fathers wear a rosette on their lapel, the club inalgala,

The back of tho daughters is a forlorn wallflower look.

La Cassa fathers believe advertising: "Ls, Costa · Viris In many parts of Italy the

The original club-in to make wonderful wiver--and foriala population outnumbyfa A|_ legally-rogistered Plak

towTi the malo by three to one,

country

of Rivarolo, the best mothers in Italy” is Bows Association already has North Italy-arranges weekly, their slogan. enough Atty Independent clubs - and dances for unmarried girls only... provide the to

number 1x

Dependent footnotes · Bonza increasing Single men aro transported in Wockly.

from nonroy, industrial towns, · Xtallazi -- 'fathers who 'fear the

ho problem,

ona clňa averages To help solve the

'a bili to worst are supporting find-a-husband clubs are Most have a membership of· matringo per tattoo,

make mature bachelori pajūtam springing

often

pohome all over. Italy, about a hundred inthers,

Latest club formed in in the to, provide a permlan up They are run by fathers of un with two or

unmarried mall village of La Chsan, near for alçla, who ""cannot find daughters each.

Turin. Club-president, farmor husbands.

There are just not

men to go round, husbands for all.

Imarited girls. '

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