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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1959) A4,
QUIET DIPLOMACY ANSWER TO
Rocket Motors -Not Toy Guns
·By ADRIAN BALL, Reuter's special correspondent touring United States missile centres. Canoga Park, Cal., April 19. The uncanny rear of four million horsepower rocket engines now echoes through mountaing near here which for 40 years heard only the revolver shots of cowboy film stars.
The Santa Susana Mountains Rocketdyne' has been develop- towering above Canoga Parking the mountains as a test site are today a vast sprawling field slice 1850-und now has ubout Iaboratory for testing rocket | 1,700 Bercs enclosed. In this engines such as the one which western part of the lush San powers the Thor intermediate Fernando Valley with 0,000 en- range ballistic misslie and the ployees. Discoverer and Pioneer - sniel- lites.
Until a few years ago, these mountains were one of Holly-
wood's
most popular locations
for wild West Nims-chur party of touring British correspon-
dents forme
many cowboy
trails
and Tock formations which we hnd been doing in ilmu see boyhood.
A few shacks which figured io mony Western eple are mi) scutered around the moun- tolus.
Nowadays.
the mountains
are a hush-hush area rinred by bith fences and carefully guarded by the staff of the
Rocketdyne plant, a division of North American Aviation Incorporated,
helmeted Tin
for the occasion we were shown 14 mories of test fixings. We
WORLD TENSION-
RUSSELL
New York, April 19.
Bertrand Russell, British philosopher and Nobel prize winner, proposed today an eight-member concillation com mittee to ease world tension through quiet diplomacy.
The proposal was made in Earl Russell's new book, "Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare," published in the United States by Simon and Schuster.
watched the final checking of He suggested a committee, composed of two Americans,
components and the bolting
of the engines to the stands which are anchored in bed- rock,
Fantastic Roar
An engineer started the fan- of the rockets by Lasle rour
ressing a bullon, selling in motion automatic recorders amasing data on the forces, temperatures, flow and thrust.
Firings
of this kind are going on almoxi daily, A high degree of safety has been resebed and a Oring we aaw at one site was the 11th in succession made with no mistake of any kind,
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They should have the con= |mumism or capitalism seems Adence of their governments, fanation of the present day have he said, so that thele recom-repeatedly arisen in the past. nendations would carry weight, and have been shown by the The committee would be un course of time to be not so tre- official and would have no mendous as contemporaries sup power beyond that of per-pose." suasion. It would hold to the principle that conelliatory mea- Aures should give no not ud-N vantage to either side.
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"I should hope that, after suitable period of discussion, tho Conciliation Committed would produce a draft agree- ment dealing with nil important points in which the interesis of East and West are thought to conillet," the author wrote.
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Earl Russell laid down tho hopeful theory that even though the cold war loads but to extinction of the "human species, "we are not doomed to persist in
the race toward
disaster,"
"I cannot admit that brink- manship and surrender are the -only alternatives,” he added.
Supreme Aim
Almost on the eve of im- portant East-West conferences, he suggesteck a line for succesy- ful negotiation starting from the premise that survival in the
insists
held
The philosopher, who that he never has been a com-
1101 plete pacifist and has that all we are wrong, offered these suggestions for avoiding
wart
• Europe: Removal of alien armed forces from sovereign states on both sides of the iron curtain la Europe.
• Middle East: The Weat must conHO
to terms
with Arab nationallam and aban- -don
bad support of government Rumia miket refrain
up from stirring trouble. The borders of Israel hould be fixed unalterably Xxula and both
snd the Weat should undertake to prevent aggression by against Israel.
or
• Far East; The Peking soverbment should be given China's sent in the U.N. "The pretense. thai Chiang res presents China is 'unworthy of sensible men....The pre- sent policy of defending Chiang will have to Le abandoned.
Formos, the "As regards best that his friends can rea- sonably hope is that he should conclude an agreement with Communist China leaving him in posesion of Formosa for his lifetime on condition that at his death, it should be join- cd to the mainland,"
mat
United Nations: "Thers 'an ̈ ̈International Armed Force rufficiently powerful to be certain of vip- tory over the armed forpea of any
fikely malion or alliance of nations." The big- power veto
bo mrst eliminated. The world should be divided into federations of smaller states: so that they will not have undue weight in the U.N.--UPJ,
Cars Affect Boys More
· Ames, Iowa, April 19. Cary are more distract. ing than girls for "moNIG
supreme akn of both Commu---college students, à report
This?" and "westem policy.
Eart Russell advocaled a prilliminary step on end of mutual name-calling.
to
Anland United State he suggested, should wake a molemm joint declaration antils their differences peace. fully and appoint a perMINI- ent jolat body to seek peno while maintaining the existing balance of power.
Ending nuclear weapons tests Is the first, slớp that offers hope
of agreement, he said.
Any agreed measures of dis armament would be highly imm portant and would diminish the risk of unintended war, te said.
He waned, however, that dis AITAMENÍ was a palliative rother than a solution."
To Avoid War
by an Iowa State College Faculty member Indicated on Baiurday.
ENGLISH PRESS
COMMENTS
1
ON “THE BIG LIE”
London, April 20.
Several British newspapers today claimed that the Tibetan Issue could now lead to certain acute. and significant events.
The Times believed that the Dalai Lama may have left behind him in Tibet a new and well-founded na-
tionalism among his people.
The Daily Telegraph (Con- servative) belleved it was most i desirable that it should he on the Asian power that brings
before the Tibetan question United Nations, and said that public expectation points to Mr Nehru, the Prime Minister of Indio.
t
First Swiss Women Vote
Commugay, Switzerland,
April 19.
Mrs Ida Pidux today became the first woman in the 668-year history of the Swiss Republic to cast a vote.
The Times editorial declared:
The Dalas Lams's, state- ment in Texour la a firm and dignified rejoinder to the Chinese version of events Lhas, and
a simple affirma« |A Hon of Tibetan feeling. He left of his own free will. "In 1900 the Chinese might reasonably have thought that the territory over which they sought to
their
· FOR ESETÉ suzerainty was no nation.
She showed up at the polling "But the widespread Chinese station at nearby Quleni-Sur- presence those past eight years Lucens Just as voting began. has fostered genuine Tibetan Four of her Oulens-Sur-Lacens nationalism,
neighbours and 57 women, here also too part in the history- making balloting,
Two Versions
Switzerland's men only n dow months ago voted down a pro Newsposal to give women the vote in
[rational elections.
I для editorial headlined
the "The Big Chronicle declared;
"The world su a whole but being Asia la particular, is given two contradletory vor- slotte of the background to this strange and illustrious trek (of the Dalai Lama and his party),
- "Communist China rilį sticks to her story that the Dalai Lama was huttled out of his country under duresA,
Commigny
Bot
and Oulens-Sur-Luceus are in the canton of Vaud-whleh Is predominately French-speak- Îng. And, Vaud men showed
MESSAGE FROM IKE
New Delhi, April 19. The Dalai Lama Was on his way to his Indian exile home in the resort city of Mussoorie today with a message of good- will from President Eisenhower, informed sources sald today.
The Eisenhower message that expressing pleznoro the god-king had reached sately after his fight from the Chinese Communists was delivered to the Dalai
yesterday bcorded his specia) train st Tespur, the sources said.
he
The Dalai Lama will meet his younger brother and sister, both studenta whom he has not seen for a long time when the train reaches Mussoorie.
The Dalai Lama's brother Lobsanr Banten Monk, has been studying in the United States and his sis- ter Pemala, 17, is a student at Darjeeling.
Above: At New Delhi's Buddhist Mahabodhi So- clety, the Panchen Lama fwho is now in Lhasa at- tempting to take
орет
Tibet
Communist puppet) makes a speech of thanks to the society for their reception. Listening is the Dalai Lama. The date: Nov, 28, 1956, lant and only time the Dalat Lama visited India-U.P.I. & Express Service,
Pare
F.A. Cup Final Hymn To Stay
London, April 19. "Abide with Me" one of
the world's best loved hymns, is not to be cut from the traditional com- munity singing at the Football Association Cup Final na Wembley
| May 2.
on
of
Sir Stanley Reus, secretary
the FA, said today there had never been any intention delcis the bermon from pre-match programme.
to the
Ita said earlier reports that it was to be banned after 32 years arose over "a compisto misunderstanding.”
A
member of his staff had de- elared that the
hyian might
Hut
be dropped to make way, for A gymmatio display. this was not the FA's official intention.
"There has DOVET been spy reason why it abould be cut out of the programme," ", bo maid.
Every year sinos 1937, the 118- year-old hymn has turned the 100,000 crowd
Into
Wembley Stadium
one of the world's realest-out-of-doors congregations.
The tradition has been holly
defended by
many British sports writers. "Abide with Mo In 1847 on the Nloe by A elergyman, Special.
was written sca-shorn st sick Anglican
China
Request To The Queen?
The Sydney
Sydney, April 10.
Sunday Mirror spld today that when the Australian Prime Minister. Mr Robert Menzies, viklin Britain next month, he wi suggest that the Queen and Princess Margaret abould
vidii Australia.
It is now nearly five Tents since the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh Jost visited
Australia.
BUT-
Tho Sunday Mirror gested that Princess Margaret did not want to visit Australia, The newspaper said the bod brown asked several times in
to allow the skirer sex to vSmallpox Jabs indicated a Tiene hat she
In municipal and captomai elections.
Switzerland'a
female first
Manila, Aprit^19. The World Health Organisa
It was
"The Dalai Lama's own state-voters showed little inclination tion will slide 250,000 doses of ment tears this to shreds, to vote as a feminine bloc, with smallpox vaccine to Singapore "One of these two accounts one, exception. The exception from the Philippines tomorrow,
announced, tonight, must be a gigantio and sordid was in the Commugny race for! UP.1. ite: and all Asia musi now councilman: make up lis mind which of then to believe."
The NewB Chronicle com- mented:
"The great danger is that the straight-forward draga of the escape" "may overshadow ib escape's implications: and the main Implication is that Com- munist China is not the bene deloent entre abomahundreds
of millions delleve her to be...
Dr. Pak Chue Chan oo13- decidiu
showed that 02 per cent of the Iowa stało students who failed a course durior the winter quarter owned
cars.
Chan siso discovered that 48 per cent of the sindents who failed went sickdy.
Uhan mid 2,826 mudents, pr 40 per cent of the student body, were inter- viewed.-U.P.I.
Sightseeing
Leader Wanted.
Far outdistancing all others the TICO Was Freddy Vullet handsome, 28-year-old and the most eligible bachelor in town.U.P.I.
The Daily Telegraph editorial cumented: "Now that the Mr Dalai Lamia has emerged into India and made a public state- ment, at once restrained Dynd uncompromising on the cardinal isque of Tibetan Independence, Ito becomes more than a pic turesque refugoo.
Sandys For Cyprus Talks
Nicosia, April 20. Duncan Bandys, British Defence Minister, will arrive here on Tuesday for Impor- tant talks on the future G! Brittati 'báses on the island,
An official announcement said he will meet Sir Hugh Foot, the Governor, and service chiefs to discuss the implementation of provisions of the London Agreement establishing an in- dependent Republic of Cyprus.
Mr Sandys, who will be ae- companied by General Sir Francis Festing, Chief of the Prime Minister Imperial General Start, will dy musters resolution to give the here from Strasbourg, where
that Astun opinion he is attending, the 10th an obviously expects from him niversary meeting of the Coun -Router,
cil of Europe.--Reuter.
"Ii la elene that he is hoping for something more than mere sympathy' from the frog' world.
"The future plans which he is considering could proVO EXA berraming to Mr Nehru, unless the Indian
19
10
Lont
Worcester, April 19. When the Severn rivér over Earl Russell, in assessing the seriguness of the world eltuation flowed ile banks last night, today, recalled that "issues that swans took the opportunity seemed to contemporaries as im- | cruise down. Hood Street for portant as the lens of Com-some sightseeing-UPI.
Blue Baby
Arrives
In U.S.
New York, April 19.
A pretty blonde three-year-old Belgian “blue baby” girl, who will undergo a delicate heart opera-
tion at the world renowned Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minnesota, arrived at New York Inter national Airport today.
Little Danielle
Bods was be restrained by her mother, given. oxygen several tinte-Míru Bimane" Baos. from a portable tank aboard the pline and appeared any- thing but dek upon her arrival. Daniello, who ban the charan-
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child
Alec Clunes, the now Professor Higgins In My Fair Lady, saw his newly born baby ⠀ 'daughter for the first
time last week.
cach time would not be available. China
Mail Special,
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