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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH

1959

FIVE DAYS THAT MADE HISTORY AS SEEN BY A HOLLYWOOD

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A HOLLYWOOD WARRIOR

Continued from Page 6)

My own view was that tho only time to go for a ditch was when planes come and strufed, #o I headed · iisejead, “for cover behind a wall; This bullding had boon shelled and bricka were loose around it,

Something went through my panis, "whatever It was. I ng a bullet, then a hunk of morlar had been spikatered and, là' shrapnelled against my ler. I looked down there and the "Jean were pretty bloody.

It didn't look bad, and I considered myself lucky--so far,

"The next day there WRE fighting all over Santiago, - Öner when the Aro was quite nolay 1 lay down in a gutter and filled up a stenographic pad with notes, My stomach was resting uncomfortably in water and. Į was uncomfortable until I wah. able to get out.

Lonely

For two more days bitllets continued in whizz around in, a nasty way, but I managed to get quarters in the Casa Granda Hotel service as usual, and even special consideration för me,

From my window I could see shooting in the street, also an ambulance take away a dead - rebel.

LUNCH:: More rica than chicken.

REBELS IN COMMAND: Flynn with a group of Castro's soldiers in Santiago.

The comic of Santiago asks why

I look so old off the

screen

and cameraman Johnny Elliot and I got on that plane and wo moved "mwiftly back to Havana..

I returned to the big city and had my leg wound' looked after, It is just pomible that a little more was made of "It inter- nationally than it deserved. -

that There is a report around

I put in a half-dozerf eills to America to mention my wound and the nows of my having been with Castro, That is an abso- lute lie.

It chanced that the hotel wasn't doing brisk business. I was the only guest and a little lonesome. I alternated between hanging about, the hotel and getting out into the streets. My notes for January 4 read:

"Muat quit things getting a correspondent with Castro,.and me. Ho showed me his badge wonder-like me what I was go on, you can always get these how the Government was hold if they had been buik for small all that was necessary!. bit too hot. I'm behind a nobody else was permitted to and lernce. Could he show me 'doing thero at this time. marble pillar on hotel porch, ́be with him from Amerles, I around?

but being only one around here but a pretty good news story feel lonely-bullets too many and ought to get it to the Press. coming too clore make me feet that way, Going to make a dash. But there was no communica- for it inside hotel. Here goes," tion with Havana, no phones or telegraph_now, no planes going between Santiago and Havana.

My scoop

I was around this time that it dawned on me they were not ahooting Gim.

Obviously the thing to do was lu get out.

Throughout my stay with Castro I had been making copious notes, for It was ob vlous that as I was the only thing like an American wor

Today a Ching

Mail writer talks tó the British scientist and ad-

To compileate matters 1 couldn't get a hatreut. Ever boards and long hair, the barber since the rebels decided to grow

business had gone into a decline. They were as scarce as plane pilots, and some of the barbers bogim to grow long hair, them relves for fear they would be thought of as Batisfans.

In the midst of these prob- lems a tourist guide approached

по

"Where can you show 'me around where there are bullets flying?" I asked. Не kappened to be a very fat fellow and he said: You are in no danger with me, Don't you know everybody loves men?"

'Go and act'

IL

fat

I didn't care to make any selentifle tests of that bromido in this particular hot test tube.

From time to time. the San- Livgons ventured out of their houses to head over to the hotel to take u look at me and to

little details taken care of?

One fellow, a kind of comic, In a religious country ke asked me!

you this, I said to myself: There will "How come

young in the be a quieter day on Sunday looking 20 movies and so old now? Tell they will not shoot each other me."

so much.

:

That hurt a little, and for answor. I gulped some run.

"Why you no go and act Instead of dreenk rum?" Big laugh from a small audience, at tay expense, and of course I had no very profound answer, All of 1 was convincing me, how ever, that I should get out.

I retired to another part of the hotel and got my shoes shined.

.

Sunday came.

But after the noon Mass, and while thè bella,were still ring- Ing. Lullets began flying, -

·To hell with this,`I said to myself. let's go to ses the Co ordinator of Transporte for two posscs to get to Havana, made a dash for the Administra- tion Civil, as they called it,

I

The photographer and I were slightly enraged by now, holed Why is it, I asked myscit, up here in Santiago, with 'n' that, white wors and revolutions, news story to woop the world

Sir William looks

forward to the

ministrator who, perhaps more than any other man, is 'res-" ponsible for shaping our World of Tomorrow. He is one of the original team who gave Britain its present lead in nuclear power. The natural successor of such men' as 'Sir John Cockcroft, Sir Christopher. Hinton, Sir William Penney and Sir Eric Plowden, He is strongly tipped as the

next director of the Atomic Energy Authority.

age of leisure

By MARK CHRISTIE

TTIGH above the roar He negotiated the "secrets three million tons of coal," he and travel under the North with Heilly-won

„swon" with America which gave sold...

scientist but a diplomat..

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a

Pole,

Sir William Cock: Unlimited power mages (nga zad

ides work for all

Ing out while Batista was safely out of Cuba-and no pilot to get us to Havana, where we could tell what we know and what we saw.

Also by now the wound on my shin was nasty-looking and needed some dressing and ears,

Charm works

The airport manager at San- logo had a couple of old planes. 1ying around there, Govern- By I could take one out. "Help. ment planes. He said if I could

yourself," he offered.

"You help yourself," I said. I'm not · flying one of those crates." They looked to me as

boys by a Arm that makes crector sets.

A planeload of exiled Cubans from Venezuela landed and unloaded its cargo. Apparently it was going to go on to Havana from here.

I put la only one. That was

If you win-

10

Just before I prepared return to the States I received a wire from a theatrical agent Inj Now York. It was signed 'Arthur R. Treftelsen, General Artists

Boy, did I get gallant with a littlo, lady' at the airport! Corporation. She was one of the workers

In charge of keeping the air-

IF YOU WIN THE WAR

port going, and I begged her HAVE POSSIBILITY TOP to let me get on this machine NOTCH BROADWAY SHOW headed westward. I promised CONTACT IMMEDIATELY her.

UPON RETURN except

TO NEW

everything

starring role - In my next YORK

movie.

If I win the war Flynn, of My charm worked, I held her Burma, Berlin, Tokyo! How hand, I teamed down at her like could he be connivel the warm Cuban sun. Lady, ot me on that plane. She melted,

The end

***

What does 'such`¤"man, fated Newbury in Berkshire, do not

the tremendous" responsi- see him, often..... liitles of diplomat, scientist and Whale Sir Willam prepared to traffic, in a new building and marked him not only as "People point to our

national clairvoyant, do in his attend yet another, meeting, 1. annual Soon the Russian icebreaker riveted with security ar

budget of £100 million and say Lenin and the American cargo over his face; he realled his pipe

sparo Ume? A broad grin come asked him a final question, rangements and people 1067hgiven who werth all that teach Sayauna) will join far which spared

present post, with a knighthood money? They

that a world's atom ships, Britain has trouble, and sald

Britala's Arst alem bamb on with police, sits Sir in the New Year's Honours of Tat chunk of this goes not in on the stocks the submarine.

Christmas Island did he himself research but basic development Dreadnought. William Cook, 54 years

"Well, I don't really have any. approve of the nuclear deterrent. All this is belled by the bland, such as the power plants.

The passibility exists of 'It's B seven-day-a-week job. The answer came like a bullet, old in April, engineering "riendly uncle" face that "In 10 years the power stations tnlimited power. But power to What time I get I spend with "Oh, yes, I am a great ballever and production chief of blank walls of his new office in vast project will really begin to brings us to the whole problem, sleep each night. But not text so frightening.

that my family. I read myself to in it. These things are so avatul, occuples the simple desk and will break even' and then this do what? "Well, now,

that anybody the United Kingdom Charles II Street.

doesn't. 117. I foreses, automation, books. No, I don't read thrillers, must think very hard before Atomic

either." for exemple, linked to electricity

starting trouble. We might never from power plants: Then we radil

have sat here talking about the thority.

But the family, comprising future if we had not had that

*(Landon Kaprano Šerušon),

Energy

To Sir

pay off."

William Cook, the

Tomorrow 'metho Sit

Au- world of

William stoked power-power from the emallest pipe, turned half a degree in his abundant leisure that everyone their home in Newtown, up his

really be in the time of Lady Cook, daughter and son at weapon." unit kncwn to man, the atom. chair, and continued to look

Into the future.

A product of Bristol Unl- versity, and incidentally one of the few top scientists not drawn from the Oxford-Cambridge axla, William Richard Joseph Cock's record is one of rapid

and unceasing success.

The budget

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wants."

A believer'

"The real point is this we cannot provide more coal, unless atomic power, comes up "At the moment," he sald fast, we will be faced with huge we have six atomie power imports of coal and all." stations in various stages of

Sir William Cook looked pan- first-class development, with another two with

Each year the

sive. His pipe stuck eggressively demed for out of his mouth. Did he really hanours in applied mathemales. nounced, and by the end of electricity rises about seven per belleve 1003 there will be about 14. cent. Where is it to come from? To suro

that, fairy story about Then come ten yours in the

that scientiaa Woolwich Research. Department. What we fully expect

that His beetled eyebrows rose about forever forecasting, but which During the war he was with the the next generation. of stations talt an incl

`nover seemed to materialise?.. Ministry of Supply, working on will make nuclear power com- projeclife development.

petitive with coal," he said.

He begin

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word

HOLIDAY TIME

Then Sir William naid some- That's a tough question," he At present we are in the first thing about The Dream. "Even said. "Very tough. There was generation. By 1006 the ad tually we foresee Britain draw a long tense pauze vanced cooled reactors will take as Its power frem sea water, over, by 1970 it will be the tum and making use of hydrogen of the high temperature reactor, fuel in a furion process similar end later still the fast breeder to Zeta.

After 1948, his life became one plant long hedd hopping operation, "Once we get into the more from being Director of the advanced slages

of reactors, Guided Projectile. Departinent to electricity will become cheaper. Chief of Royal Naval Scientific appreciably cheaper. At the Research.

monoat it costs about 73: n

In 1084, se plein Mr Cook, to Joined the Atorado

began his long much fricially, con- tact with Sir William Penney..

Real power

That is still a long way away.

"Yes,"7_do." he replied-over- tually. For the majority of poе« ple, there will be less and legs work, I don't say that will be good thing. I don't whow. It đán pends what we do," with our Telauze. But I think it wil собие.-

unli: We are going to knock it Zola was a terrife breaks For a man who himself, has down to 3d, per unit, or Jem.-

through but the probierna Are-ho, free-time at all, this wash Authority se Docuty Director of Atomic respons Research, and By then, atomic power will immense, knd I would not like strange prophecy. Bigg

to say hów, kolien or if they willy? have geneeded coal as our travancome, But it's posts SIE, Willem's diary, in filed main sharqojot energy ing

CURSOS MEN inonths ahead with cdn- "Already, one tang of atomia prezz

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· Cook -- wie in charge of the fuel can pruvklo, na múch power, Power-atomic powersuznosna, and telpa, marom £24. continan a Christnias, Irland therinonuclear:##" 10,000 tons of cost, taut, wbán; many longer teenage girendy kto keep pace with and organi teria that

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