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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1959.
Hollow echo around
de Gaulle's big_bang_
GENERAL DE GAULLE is planning to prise the utmost political ad- vantage out of the first French atomic blast which he hopes to stage In the Sahara soon.
He will undoubtedly claim immediate membership of the "Nuclear Club" of atomic Powers hitherto exclusive to the U.S., Russia and Britain.
the
On this ground he will demand right for Frame 10 be represented as on rejual partner
any Svininit laiks.
af
The general wi
ng notations
Washingtort unding for the same right Steps to V.S. am wampon secret as Beltain hey enjoys mader the new nframka pack.
What hopes hus be uf ; chive in: than routes? How uris Hontiger will Prenee really fes cony w the day that the first
Shin Blogd Arth MIT 1 derert testing around.
3
"Bebeve that the Big Three walt juge is ul-milan- frat bang as no tuve than grundlove cesture-a tecluiralty blunt bit politically hollow deration that the Boulangers afe catching
with th Jurces and the fennost..
A device
The first exalo iom will NOT muite Fronta a military atomix Power, Intelligence reports show
Brable boge
width 14 to be expindled but an experimentat device. At least a
year will be acced before this be made into # devine could bomb,
Even then the werpon enlikely to pack #punch blzger than that Mark I bomb cropped
whil over Hiroshima-n mere of clear grape-shot compared with 31e crushing power of the 11-both.
Three will make it elre that pa ression of Feale atom brands, though a con- ziderable achievement, Is in punclent qualifiantion for a club compared of members with stockpilis of "megatea"" Wel polks.
The
-
How long then before the French can Entail this require most? There are two was of making ingaton bomb --bombs with the power of at lunst million tons of TNT.
dome
BY SCALING UP the atom nb as the Russians hove
BY USING AN atom bomb na trigger to net off hydrogen explosien the ell. I-bomb.
that
British experts beli, ve either meired wit take the
A milifon tons of T.N.T, would need a train 200 miles long to carry It.
French at teart further three years, Even
thov then
have Ittle hope of producing a stock. pile because France is hard up for tritium-the bottle-nzelt bomb material.
No trust
The only way de Gaulle enn avercome these crippling limita- tions will be by inducing the Americans to exchange Informa- tion and provide bomb-ports as they are doing with Britain,
Bu U.S. Congresemen do not Trust French greurity,
And de Geulie's attitude over the lationing of U.S. atomic weapons in France, which has led to the withdrawal of Now planes and their bonis. has buried any hopes of American support.
De Gaulle han always con- fused power and prestige. The big stocks of U.S. atom bombs France he has ordered out of provideá much more real power than the one loud bang which wil str French Feerts but cause little stir where he needs it in Washingten, London, and Moscow.
Chapman Pincher
"NOTICE HOW BAD TEMPERED THEY GET WHEN THEY FIND WE'VE COT HERE FIRST."
THREAT to a nation's
AMERICANS are still worried by the amount of drug addiction believed
to exist among the younger generation in the big cities of the U.S.A.
It is said to be still prevalent in slum areas like Little Spain, New York, where immigrant Puerto Ricans are congregated, and Harlem, where New York's Negro population has long been settled in large numbers. In some blocks, few youngsters seem to be unconnected with the marcoties traffic in one way or another, as addicts or as peddlers, or both.
TALKING
POINTS
Let
preelous to you as de integrity
the SOT
of
youth
By A. CARNEY
count thousands of teenagers at high schools!
ciation Is
the
DEE REMMINGTON MEETS
London Exprese Surpice.
THE MAN
WITH THE POETIC FUNDAMOLD
THE GOBBLEDYGINK!
STA
~TANLEY UNWIN, the Professor of Gobbledygook, leaned forward
earnestly.
"It does appear," he said, "that I have this humourlode which some- how strikes the trigger-off in the mind of the human bean who has a con- cept for it. Do you imagine?"
I said I thought so.
en-
"My
just
crazy
held his steady job for 20 years. "I get a tremendous lot About afty-sh, with a house in Fun out of it when I got an in- Daventry, three children.
telligent reaction. What caused the Budden burts of
mixed-up"And Jr. the people with" me keep a straight face you can inngasage?
the other fellow usually soo He slaried it by making up nonsense thymnes to amuse the thinking: "Well, they're all right.
It must be ME)" ONE DAY A BBC PRODUCER
HE NEVER WORKS OUT A
children.
I hoped that I would be able
But so far as the young people of the USA are con-
he said am sure," vernel, the curse of dope
- Americons why consider Red couragingly, "you DO. You, un
have the Averago China is diverting Thousands of doubtedly ia and comfined to the sienzy
Intent plus of the human workaday." tons of raw plan with tenements in the squalid
a yet more acute form than confederacy of crime to be the
to destroy the U.S.A. may well The man along the bar look
to a wild and ed uneasily at his glass of betr sections of America's prin- that which has been causing notorious and infamous Malabe subscribing cipal eitles. It has also
and edged a little nearer. the secret soclely which started agitation in the U.S.A. over made its vile inroads into the past few years. But ton dedicated to resisting for-
alf centuries ago as an organish quite groendions theory.
The theory that the Mafia, NONSENSE the ranks of collegians; this is the very reason why eign tyrants in Slelly, but which or a Mallo-type syndicato
wife," continued the HEARD HIM TALK HIS WAY SCRIPT. E healthy and you will be claiming
and many thinking Americans de fundoers who car- in bedral de veluni diatribu-n jant nonsense, though. OUT OF BONE-WAY STRONG 11 Just comes out like a kind ny: happy and you win daughters
WAY IN STREET. of unconscious steam. And if I {"c B0 deeply concerned, ried their monstrous code across of heroin la by no means'
"But then you know what .be good.
"I have come," he told a try to analyse the things I say the vigour and citizens among its wretched knowing as they do how the world whenever and ranch, however.
women are. They are made up bewildered Pe. "from the far it doesn't work cleanliness of your body be as victims.
insidiously the drug-habit wherever they emigrated.
of complex troublelodes, and flung empost of Hobardylasmain. Nor is there anything fanciful they only understand insofar as The Island, you know," In the America is not by any can spread, knowing also the The Mafia, with its roots silli about the prediction that unj ff" is the profound rootrul of Danglydipodes. We don't have
the first great moral and physical damage in Sicily, but no longer actuated epidemie spread of drug addle- nature. country to be threatened it has wrought elsewhere. by any political ideologies, is tion could say the vigoar of an "People," continued Stanley, to the point of "often ask me if there is any with this problem, which is In epidemic proportions it amassing huge sums of money entire nation
bring about the through its members, and to that rendering it of little or no ac-rhyme or reason in what I say."
an entire end has lent itself "body and count in the world.
IS THERE? The brown eyes one that has been in exis- could tence in the world from time destruction of
soul" (If it has soul) to the
reason It is vital looked hurl. w. EMERSON. immemorial.... ever since nation, first by undermining enormity of corrupting American that the parasites whe direct "I don't know," he sold with the narcotic effects of opium every decent influence which manhood and womanhood, and this fearful traffic-not merely dignity. "Certainly, mine has a It's really Marriage is a feast where and hashish were discovered the people of that nation sapping away the vitality and
moral fibre of the rising genera- the front men' but the arch-poelle fundamold.
behind the scenes like folk lawdy, you know." criminals tlon in the USA. better in the East, and those of could boast, the grace is sometimes
the arch-criminals above all
The man along the bar lauk- than the dinner.
the eoen leaf (cocaine is its
bebind
scenes--must be ed dazed. the -CHARLES COLTON.{alkaloid) became known in
Tracked down, routed out and For the stream of gobbledy South America,
Crastically punished. These men xook comes from o slim, grey-
of haired man with bright brown "And I try to choose words nouneed, "I really must go to murderers-murderers Everyone pusties ม
human happiness, murderers of eyes. Who looks Just what he which have some kind of idea- get a facehold on the louder-
scope for my tellyvissy." the soul,
B BBC endineer who has association with the situation.
of your character and the clarity and strength of your mind.
-WILL DURANT.
Talent alone earnot make writer. There must be a man Behind the book.
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The process of corruption ean be so clearly seen at work in individuals, as they
*
And they say
puss through the stages of So say a considerable number foolish experimentation, of of Americans.
one rela- more than that. graduating from tively mild drug to another
They say the Mala is in an more potent, of increasing
unholy alitance with Far the dosages, of im- Eastern Communism — with poverishing themselves to authorities in Hed China who satisfy craving that rce in the drug-traffe a means stendily mounts, of he of destroying the power of the U.S.A, and toppling the Great coming reduced to such de Republic from its pedestal, gradation that in order to get money to secure further
#
The Communists of the Far
supplies from hard-faced, East could be relying on a lesson
merciless traffickers they
that their own country's history
has taught, for it was addiction
will stoop to any evil, any to oplum over successive genera– į crime.
tions that had much to do with the decline of Imperial China.
Statistics show that in the 1030's China was far and away the biggest producer of opium. In America marijuana and Doubtless she still is, but what heroin, are the two principal happens to her several thousand drugs in fillelt we Marijuana tons of opium per annum? Is all originated in Mexico. and the that oplum, or the great bulk of product of a narcotic plant. is it, used for lawful medicinal pur- usully smoked in the form of a poses or for controlled dosages cigaretle. Sooner or later the administered to adilicts who can- not exist without a supply? Or is addict censes to get a “bang" or "kick" out of marijuana, how- frightening proportion of ever, and I is then that he or despatched by devious routes she turns gerly to heroin, a and means to Sicily, there to be derivative of morphine which is processed und passed on for itself the chief alkaloid of legal distribution as heroin?. r upium,
And to what extent Most Americans are convinced America's population ulready that one vast criminal confeder- rkddled with addicts? Estimates ney is responsible for the distri- vary, but one figure which has bution of narcotics in the U.S.A. been given is half-a-million- Most of them, too, belleve that an estimate that takes into se
THE
Just
1
THE story of the Buckingham Palace sontry who is alleged to
have kicked a woman tourist appeared in a Rome newspaper, recently headlined: "Privalo Withheid is London's pubifɑ hero.” The Guardman's real name la Footer. But a phries'in the Rome story explains its headline -- "The private's name was withheld.”
are
that For
Wakey Wakey!
· GRIVAS'S CYPRUS
HOLIDAY CAMP
REOPENED
KNEE FASHION
AT GENEVA
one-way trakers here."
PECULIAR
"Yes. Well... er, yes," said the Pc. "You just carry on up here then, sir."
Stanley was given a spot in the "Early to Braden TV series, and overnight become a hit.
"What I do," he explained, "is to try to conjure up a picture in the mind by using words.
peculiar
to analyse the things he'd said. "I am sure you will," said the Professor. He leaned forward and gripped my arm. "It you are in doubt remember the old thyme..
I beat you, Jack If you suffer the form.
Take your piper And blow it through
gorm,
the
There was a funny kind of silence in the bar.
The Professor looked round
"Now," be brightly.
MACMILLAN HOLIDAY PLAN
The PM, Lennox-Boyd, and
the Attorney General hope to sail
around Central Africa on
a cushion of air-
If gives those Moscow wolves a
hance to se
our knees arent
witacking...
(OFFICIAL)
PASSENGER
TO
U.S.A.
...And don't forget-if some planted fiecklar pops up at the golf course and asks "Have you
stopped beating your wife?" just reply OK...
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