1959-10-07 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1959.

Uproar and Dr. Edith

THIS is the third instalment of the story that goes right to the heart of the General Election. It is a detailed account of what happened in April, 1956, when the Labour Shadow Cobinet and National Executivo enter. tained Khrushchev and Bulganin to dinner at the House of Commons. Khrushchev, convinced he was dining with anemies, got angrier and angrier as his speech went on. But worse was to come.

AR

tells Bevan

"Sit

down!

FTER the angry Mr Khrushchev sat down, the questions came. From Mr Bevan. From Mr Sam Watson, the Durham miners' leader, who is chairman of the party's international sub-committee. Mr Watson had in his pocket a list of about 120 names of Social Democrats who are believed to be behind bars in Iron Curtain countries.

Khrushchev refused point-blank to have anything to do with any list of names, Both Mr Bevan and Mr Watson irritated Mr Khrushchev. They wanted to know who Khushchev regarded as "enemies of the State."

How could they be de

stop

fined? What was to Russia using its influence with satellite countries

release these prisoners?

to

Mr Bevan now got the idea that Khrushchev had not properly understood the Bevan stood up point, quietly to clarify the point. but Khrushchev just would Bevan not lister to him. was not taking that treat- ment,

He was standing in front of his chair, a few yards from Khrushchev on the opposite side of the table. He pushed his chair buck and took a couple of steps towards Khrushchev flourishing his finger and saying: "Don't bully. can't bully me,"

You

Dr Edith Sun, merskill shrilled

to Mr Bean, "Sit donan." Mr

Beran turned to her; "There y

nu again, Edith, Ainching in the

Jace of the enemy."

Overawed

He un-shouted Khrushcher, who had stood up, but at last sat down, And the incident with Bevan saying Gnished quietly: "You have your inter- nasl allow us pretation--you

Mr George frown and Mr Alfres! Rubens joined in the ap- peal for the prisonerd. Khrush- cher several times jumped Jis feet one shouted: "Niet, niet. niet-No, no, no."

to

The morning after ot

No. 10: Sir Anthony,

restores the caim.

Wan

one had been There mile in the later stages of the disaster.

Khrushchev, with a few drops of brandy left in his gloss, said: Before 1 drink the remains of the brandy..."

I

hurried The head waiter round to him with a bottle, but Khrushchev said: "No, no.

the remains of the "Be meant

Fluss. Not the brandy in my

the remains of the brandy in room."

Amid all the shouts of

and answering Jouts

rif "Nonsense, why should w be quiet Mr Gooch said not

party did in the 1943 election, that "Left can best speak to

eft," the party's chances the next election might well be endangered.

RED REVENGE..... BY JAK

At

WES

EPIKOFF REKTOR

Sir Anthony soixed this opportunity to tum away wrath. Skilfully he got the Russians to calm down and sit down. The talks wont on.

9-Because Khrushchev But KhrushcheT was still unforgiving, the entire new bolling. He and Bulganin went Westminster to lunch with 40

MPS in the privata rexdence of Mr Speaker. Opposition leaders were present.

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Growl

was

more

Lamh

over, Bulganin moking his usual pleasant, witty thank you" speech; was saying that they would like to come again, when Khrushchev growled "And I hope the

be Labour Party will amiable next time."

There was silence. Hesitant laughter. Then most of the 40 hosts grinned. And Khrush- chav's moon face showed a solic in teknowledgment.

But

still Khrushchev Was belling. The party moved into the Speaker's drawing room with the world boss of Com- munism still muttering about "hamstvo."

Mr George Brown, the man who had shouted "May God forgive you," went (3) Khrushshev,

line of world Communism--to ն ուս co-operate co-exist_with with Socialist Parties-wa probably already in reverse to some distant point of no re- turn. Here the importance Iny Bri- in Europe rather than in 1nin.

It was the group which had sat near Mr George Brown-in particular Dr Edith Summer- skill and unlon leader Jack Copper--who raised the matter of their embarrassment. They were angry with Mr Brown--

push and yet they could not

natters too far. Both were anti- Bevanite.

Mr Cooper had already put in such a strong report to the General and chiefs of the Municipal Workers that it was

now doubtful

voles would go as freasurer.

if their 600,000

for Mr Brown

And Mr Sam Watson who, as

miners lender, had

done his best to keep 600,000 votes from Mr

a

10

was thinking again

of

He said he was going out

not be London and so would able to

Russians' attend the party al Claridge's that night.

ile

he said he was sorry would not be seeing them, again. He would like to take that op portunity of saying goodbye.

always

another Bevan,

strongly

For Mr Bevan had championed Mr Watson at the dinner on the issue dear to him 09 chairman of the party's in- ternational sub-committee: that issue of the Imprisoned Social Durocrata.

He held out his hand. Spur

and Khrushchev flushed shouted: "Niet, niet, niet." Mr Brown's band dropped to his side.

he

Khrushchev bore down on a

Tint

FAX

This will shake Eisenhower, eh comrada? Anything they can do, we can do better-and bigger.'

The

beat

men to the challenge

of space

THERE

was a knock. The door of the research laboratory in the Sheffield steelworks opened

He clutched to show a young RAF officer.

by PETER FAIRLEY

briefcase which bulged. "I have a real problem," perimental airplane. he said.

The steelmen smiled, "I think

By

Bristol "all-stainless-stcet ex- 130 P.188 due to early next year.

the work of a Basically, research scientist on new steels

that is a matter of adding or sub-

this. tracting a little of this or alloy. But the problem

putting 104 too much "toughener" alloy, you usually make the steel tess regisinni to These two latest examples are a, subile blend of steel, chromium (resists the beat), nickel (resista the stress) three fancy-sounding nelals, vanadium, molybdenum and niobium.

Mr Bevan os treasurer?

Minutes later the young offler 500 milis-the highest any Bri- spur to alone wiKS &

further was deep in an explanation that tish-made object has ever been nellon The implications of work on his top-secret turbo- hurled. The recovered nose cone eloctoral defeat and world-wide jet air engine had come to a showed slight "blunting." it had Communist hostility, us yet full stop because he could not a faint heat and shock pattern group of Labour leaders. Again discussed, were none the less find a metal capable of standing on one side.

Again he talked of "hamstvo;"

up to the gruelling temperatures spars to action.

But it came back. Virtually corrosion. sale it was impossible to

There was perhaps just one and stresses it would meet.

intact. deal with the Socialists; again

way out of all the perplexities-

William Hilton, I asked Dr chalec, he said that, given the

and the worded executive took we might have just the thing," 47-year-old leader of the team he would be a Tory.

of British pressing on with plana All this was said within the

A deputation of Mr Hugh they said. And they had.

The RAF officer became Sir for the Flying Pyramid space- hearing of Ministers who did Galtskell, the leader, Mr James

His jet engine chip, whether he thought stain- in-best to mask their Griffiths, the deputy leader, Mr Frank Whittie. was the morning their

But the less steels today are good enough Thus on Wednes- Edwin Gooch, the chairman, and became world-famous. after. The ult was black with satisfaction.

Khrush day morning, with tensions ris-

the see policy of the Sheffield scientists to use in such a venture. Mr Morgan Phillips,

in those National

retary, would call on the is the same as it was ing in the party, the

pro-wer days—"GM one jump Executive met in gloom. The re- were plain and

ahead of the need." percussions

ofter threefold, in this order of Im mediacy:

The Chairman of the necasion A rage

appeared to be averawed. And

by now

there was no retreat,

night

anyway. frean

calamity.

were s

of

Now

t

to mid-political hang-over. 11 was 18 minutes

chev, still in a towering rage night when the men at the top

with the Socialists, arrived with table pushed back their chairs.

distinctive Bulganin at Downing Street to Farewells

their resume talks with Sir Anthony for their brevity as for absence of cordiality. The hand- Eden. shakes were perfunétury.

But on the way out Mr Khrushchev

through went

of the insults he had

it.

Russians.

There was to be no apology for raising the issue of prisoners, but there would a definite assurance of good will.

cats

1

The problem

and

The reientists have also done something now, for a steel with these properties made it easy to weld. And non-magnetic. Thus it can be used for space instruments, such as gyroscopes, They were able to

the outer skin of n Dr Hilton reckons his Pyramid as well as Whittle a stainless steel which

would be cooked at a tempera- vehicle. not for they had developed,

But there is a big difference theoretically perfect grees Centigrade as it re-enters between ture between 800 and 1,000 de-

When the around 26,400 Atomic Energy Authority called be travelling at up to conditions well beyond any feet per second.

for better materials

"can" then experienced.

uranium

the fuel elements, "I think," he said, "that our

steelmakerS krew

alloy steels are marginally good, but we could do with any improve- ments they can make.

specie task, but against the day when SOMEONE would need a

Al once he started to speak -Because Right-wing Brown

received I. had come out of i badly If harmany could be restored

Left-wing Bevan rather before Khrushchev and Bulganin material tough enough to stand Earth's atmosphere. It would blends and practice. at the dinner. He spoke with and

left the country several would be back in their bags. sent feared that this was

It was the only hope,

TOMORROW:

the

well, the internal balance of the party red shifted. For these were the strongest op- ponents in the coming struggle two

for the treasurership,

Because any

"the automatic process of such vehemence that some pre-

autographing seven menus.

As the cavalende, with its end of the talks, the end of the

visit. swept rscorts, motorcycle

of Palace gates through the Yard, an uproar started back in the Harcourt Room on the trea!- nent of the Men Who Came To Dinner.

True, Mr Gaitskell and Mr Alfred Robens, potential Foreign Secretary, had been informally invited to Russia. And Mr Gaskell was to make good use

of the invitation later.

Khrushchev was in full flight, "hamstvo," Be grunted about which is "churlishness"; he said that if that was the Labour Party he would be a Tory if he came to live here.

He thanked his stars that he the did not have to deal with

friends Socialists but with his the Tories.

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He's worth cultivating. Always ready to fit

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no Socialist could longer claim, as the

No forgiveness -(London Express Service).

Trip to Venus is tested

The boffins keep

it quiet

to

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called boron would be ideal.

In theory by adding boron a super-steel to survive the heat

BLACK KNIGHT

The Black Knight-The steel used in it remains a secret

"Black Knight's rose cond must have travelled at around Today every new thing that 12,000 feet per second, and only flies, or rockets through space, underwent about a quarter of depends on stainless steel. The the heat in outer space which term "clainless" does not mean the Pyramid would have 10 it will not stain. It means that stand. But the cone was In it has qualities to resist corro- encouragingly good shape.” sion right the way through. Nobody will tell you the type instand of just on a "plated" of steel used in Black Knight, surface such as drome. Today But the steelmen WILL tell you the heat and strains which such about two new steels they have it atomic reactors could bo Centrispinning Is done by sleel has to tmdengo arc far produced which can "certainly made. But until 1957 scientists pouring the liquid metal into a grenter than those faved by withstand temperatures of 500 had only been able to use ting would, spinning at high speed. Whittle. Security regulations degrees C."

amounts of boron without ruin-

The metal is flung against the make it hard to say to what These are known as F.V.520 ing the other properties needed edges of the mould and gradu-

"boffins" are and F.V.568. Both combine the for the "cans."

atly but up INWARDS until t still able to live up to their heat-resisting qualities of stain- Then a Sheffield firm invented has set hard. The casting can less steel with the lightness of a new secret technique of blend- weigh anything up to four tons. But the nose of the Black aluminium alloy. Ideal materials ing boron with steel. Britain The method ensures that the Knight rocket, shown at the for the skins of hypersonic alre won an International race. steel is ualformly strong all the

planes and space rockets. Ideal, One such technique, Farnborough Air Show, gives a

which way through and in all direc- too, for the combustion cham- has opened doors Into many tione, highly clean and has no clue.

Fired from the Australian de- bers of jet and rocket motors. industries besides the

space "bubbles." sert, Block Knight has been up F.V.520 will be used in the race, la called centrispinning..

ANY space-ship bound for Venus is going to get extent the short

jolly hot-about 50 per cent hotter than one coming back through Earth's atmosphere,

Such are the findings of American scientists using a 40ft.-long shock-tube to test the effect of friction heat on space vehicles.

Into the tube they pump-, ed the gases which are believed to make up Venus's atmosphere. At Unte end they put a nose-cone to re- present a space-ship. At the other they exploded a mix- ture of oxygen, hydrogen and helium.

A gentle landing

The shock-wave flashed down the tube in a 10-1000th

of a second and struck i

heat gauge in the nose-cone. The heat recorded was that which a space-ship would suffer at 20,000 miles an hour.

Why will get so hot near Venus Because the atmo- wphere of that planet, moetly carbon dioxide, is heavier than ours. The friction-hoat as you pan rough it is, therefore, greater.

Space Action? Not when the Americana plan a gentle land- ing on Venus with a 'rocket for 1904.

--(London Express Service)..

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Each casting is then tested at length for any porous areas cracks. Nowadays, X-rays, atomic Tuye or ultra-sonic signals are beamed through the metal to check for hidden defects.

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In tota on the new F.V:520 atcel, cylinders of it were sunk in a chemical solution for whole year,

The steel Was "practically unaffected" by corrosion. One older steal with Almilar properties was badly corroded within a month. An-

other within six months.

A by-word

The research done by British

steel scientiK(M. is painstaking |and-what has become a byword for Sheffield of the "nest quality." At present, Black Knight and the Blue Streak Rocket (not due to be fired until 1901) are the only official Bri- tish candidates for a look at outer space.

moon-abots before these steelmaiters henr another knock on the door like | Whittle's. Today they are not allowed to say what their answer will be.

It may be many

But their aniling refusal ho la confident air.

London Express Servic®),