1960-01-07 — Page 6

Rockets:

IS BRITAIN'S EFFORT REALLY

NECESSARY?

now there is a British as well as an American

So finger on the trigger. Thor rockets, it has

been officially announced, are now ready by their launching pads along the East Coast.

THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1960.

ON

THE

BEACH

FINAL DAY

The date is February 28, 1963. Just 10 months after IT hap- This in the end of lite

which

apened.

on our planel Faial radialen destroyed the Northern Hemi

phere

trom the nuclear war

A switch could be pressed in Norfolk and, few minutes later, Moscow would cease to exist This means that Britain has a Great, Deterrent of virtually the same composition as the American "sword force."

course, far

smalter

I is, of but it in cline in Whitehall that the British nuclear stuking force alone canikit inflket "tens of

cnsultica niliions of Soviet Union in a few minutes.

What is more, the NAF which delivery

is responsible for the

011

the

of the deterrent, matulains that no surprise attack on this coun-

Try could prevent the departure

of British retaliation.

Expensive

By- TOM POCOCK

Lars is a joint

responsiblity.

Anglo-American

Australia,

har

שיסת

resched

the Inst bastan uf mankind. This is the end the road for us all-for Dwight Tower. American submarine consumander; for Moira David- he found a with whom leeting happiness in these final, stom for me, dark days; and scientist Julian Oxhorn. Finis,

FOT

1. JULIAN OSBORN (FRED ASTAIRE), HAD

MY FINAL FLING WINNING A MOTOR RACE

1. 74769

PREPARATION FOR THE INEVITABLE-THE HANDING OUT OF MERCY PILLS FOR ALL

PATHERE IS STILL

AND AS WE WAITED THE BALVATION ARMY PLAYED A REQUIEM FOR NANKIND...

One last, carefree whirl

before... OBLIVION!

WELL, what do you do when the world is

crammed into one corner of the Australian continent and you know that, at most, you have only a few weeks to live?

People suddenly realised that, with the short, it was necessary to be honest.

Commander Dwight

Davidson Moira

by Leonard Mosley

весть

had

preparing. The killed. world was closing in on us. For win."

neu like me, bachelors, cynics, scientiate, devil-may-cores. here was the opportunity to cock a shook at fate.

Towers

been had We

AJ petrol were precious

hoard puts for the winter. had cars, and we had been get- ting them ready.

$117- and And yet you would be

cheerful everyone honest with each other at last. prired how

In many ways it remind- WIA. ed me of life during the b back in the old days in London In 1941.

Last chance

at life

TWO WHO POUND HAPPINESS **MOIRA TAVA GARONER) AND TOWERS

PECKI 1GREGORY

1

way it goes, even at the end of the world, when you decide to fall in love with a naval officer. Oblivion is just ahead, and what happens? The

Silent Service nirst.

Towers went down to report to his crew aboard the Sawfish and told them the facts of the situa- tion. There was no hope. 14 would soon be all over för all of them.

So what did the crew deeldo to do? Well, maybe a British crew would have decided to do the same thing. They asked to go back to America.

To music

And that is really the end of the whole story, for Dwight Towers for Moira, and for me, Julian Osbom, sometime boffin, Well, I hydrogen bomb expert and rue-

I'm going out there to

It's a curious thing, how the With the return of the sub-

you have no to Australia,

knowledge that The crux of the matter is: marine Sawfish

future, that you needn't worry could the British V-bombers everyone knew that there was I was just

It any longer, loosens you up. Now the cost of mainiblairag private clear deterrent is and misiles be knocked out on jno hope any more.

o question of time. the round? The RAF has work

collecting isn't that you take stupid risks £130 lion a year and it can

ve out a plan for rapid dispersal United

squirrels The difficulties don't seem in- be argued that as the

We superable any longer. Command and warning of altack, Under States Strategic Air

the most urgent of these the has xene 1,700 lorge jel bombers

We all went faster round the to deliver the bombacked "amber" warning- V-bomber airborne

curves.

We all pressed harder up by a wide range of missiles striking force must be within three minutes,

There was a

I racing circuit on the straight.

said. dryly. Eundreds of hip-based

Oure airborne-and presum- is Brush effo

When Towers took off in the bombers the

And oh yes, there were acci- thought at least I'd like to go lag car ace. on-coming ably The money

pasting the

The bombers then were roar Sarwish to imee the mysterious outside Melbourne, and we took Brid UNIVCESSITY

Years ago, back in denis.

another the down in history as having done and no man o radio in California, he had hope it

One after pet enemy over the North Sea-ing overhead

The time is seven o'clock in might perhaps h better

which of them.

of the course and

make

the the evening. in his heart that his wife and Europe, I used to watch the cars went on conventional fores or space would the bombers get through? woman know

theh Yes, say the experts.

which house, which street, which

themselves and rhildren might still be alive.

was pitched racing family, would be

wiped out but now he had maallowed the also a spectator at the Mille drivers into death and destruc- It was frightening but it hard facts of the

situation and Miglia. next.

But spectator is the tion. But it wam'i because they nlao. was

in Borne

ways digested them.

word. I had never taken part were trying to kill themselves. It won just that, released from invigorating. You suddenly dis-

tried too Moira Davidson's reaction, in in a race in my te

fear of death, they covered who were your friends,

love with Towers as she was.

But now I wanted

to be in much with too little skill. She and how nice people could be.

worked in a different way.

there, and winniag. that Towers was a discovered desperately keen trout sher-

research.

the Before examining

worth adding motive it is

forces we get for up the

our money,

rane

Command, which is Bomber

long Jor responsible nuclear retaliation, is divided into four parts, each under separate control,

the First cosmes force the Vulcan

The future

They reckon between 75 and 85 per cent would reach their targets by night, about half by

day.

Is all thin worth the Could it not best

being money?

be left to the Americans?

V-bumber Vietors from

and Vallonts-which can

dispersal airtelds their Britain

All losers

нал.

it was that way in Melbourne. She went harder to bear ment House One answer is that the Ameri-True, this was cans may not always be as than the blitz. The blitz in Lon- into breaking heavily committed in Europe as don was a gamble in which you land--and

of coming season was had a 10-1 chance

down to Govern- and talked them

over.

5t

Le Mans, I

think about the And it you facts of the ualion-IT on ite way, the sickness to come--you will realise what sort of race 1 was likely to be. the low of the the trout fishing

Dwight Towers moved forward two

sind

could enjoy

it was too

The winner

something except hydrogen bomb,"

Or of Melbourne harbour the For it was almost time now." nuclear submarine Sawfish, with its captain, Commander Dwight The first cases had been re-

Bltering down Towers, aboard is saling for a ported, IT was

rendezvous somewhere In the of Melbourne now. U.S., the the streets

only place In the The pills that would bring an world where his crew can die easy way out were on the way happy

to the rationing stations.

uf the week,

in they are today. During the 1960s lout unscathed. In this situation, months....so that both fisher- come up to the pils os I took maybe it was because I pushed and found case and comfort.

range as far as Omsk and cover 75 per cent of Soviet industrial entrer.

From other bases they can the entire Soviet Union, COVET and, such is their mobility, they could be rekly 10 operate from bases the other side of the world within 24 hours.

The rockets

The V-bomber force is under the direct control of the British Government.

is

The fight bomber force entirely at the disposal of wir General Narstad's NATO command. It is now composed of Canberras, which could reach

Kiev as far as Leningrad and

but not Moscow, and these are

to be replaced by the

Vallants,

heavier

A deadly technique evolved

by the light bomber squadrons

Is the low level attack

"under of

the radar," and in spite heavy fuel consumption at this height the bombers could' range over most of Eastern Europe at u height of 25011.

These are the factles that have made ship-borne bombers, designed for low flying a major strategic weapon,

Thirdly is the reconnaissance force, which is responsible to a special inter-Service organisa- tion.

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Finally come the missiles. The four Thor bases each with complement of 15 rockets with a range of 1,000 miles, will be fully operational by the spring. The Aring of these nuclear mis-

TALKING

POINTS

China is expected to emerge as a major nuclear power.

There is a possibility that Europe might have to stand up to en aggressor ky self.

him-

If the aggressor found self faced with the prospect of mutual destruction then, as he is today, the uneasy peace may be preserved,

--London Express Service).

not hope in each other.

Moira Davidson watches them

streets

of Mel-

At the end The professionals kept to the Dwight Towers and Moira came so. She is crying. but in a way track; and so did 1. For 40 tops back from the mountains. Here she is happy.

And in the we kept it up, and with every at least were two people who Moira lap we pushed harder. And had solved the human situation bourne, as the crowds queue for

their oblivion pills, a Salvation Above Army band is playing. my last look over my beloved hardest of all that, at the end. what, I suppose, at the end of racing car.

them a banner flies. dear was the most fantastic race of all kill "Don't

yourself

arm time, I came in first. But before they took off for Julian," Motra said, her

And as Moira clasped me in the mountain streams, they had linked In Dwight's.

not? her arms and gave me a victor's To engagement. an important

I almost said: "Why

"You won. watch me.

It will only make a few weeks' embrace, she said:

You won because you Instead, 1 sald: Jutan! This version of "On the teach" in

For it was for just this situa- difference. adapted from the United Artists Alm

that I und a few others "I'm not going out there to be bad to, didn't you?" based on the novel by Nevil Shute. Lion

everyono started--and everyone men and troul

Yet such is the ability of little sport before lost. the human spirit to adjust itself fate. that there were few hysteries. few breakdowns, and lots of camaraderie.

Prince

Philip's Shaving

AN ANNOUNCEMENT

OF FASCINATING SIGNIFICANCE

For the THERE it was on Page Three of a British national newspaper shortly before Christmas last month discreetly placed in an advertisement of an clectric shaver .... a royal warrant.

Which means that in Buckingham first time Prince Philip has been revealed as a "lazy shaver.” Palace every morning there is the buzz-that penetrates more urgently than the alarm clock through so many wives' waking dreams.

For so

This is a small but very significant fact in the ever-growing battle of the bristles. long our monarchs were bearded (think of Henry VIII, Charles I, Edward VII, and George V-any hair fashion they set was of no advantage at all to the barbers),

But

to the pogonotomists (thal's, an expert on shaving) it

pleasant, I think, is that it of all to the way the wet-dry

by Jill Butterfield

war will go in the next decade. slumped by "At what angie do "Give him a better shave this

What makes a fire so

is the most fashionable puinter

is a live thing in a dead

*

room.

-SYDNEY SMITH.

Lift not the painted vell which those who live call Hre.

Presents

car acts

To Math The Cum Cummarys

10

Shutter Piphacts LIR.

THE ROYAL WARRANT

either returning to the wet shave when repairs are neccs- sary or having two razots).

So many

The dry-shave magnates have the lesa obvious but their greater inducements on side.

Already, overnight trains in most parts of the world equipped with plugs to take an electric razor. Already there's self- London shop with a

O

Already

afe

service. electric shoving service. (A shilling in the slot buys dive minutes' shaving time, and your get a davor and an automatic cleansing pad thrown in.) the voltage of the Mediterranean coast zone has been changed over to the 220- rate of mast volt, ·60-cycle

60 the England, place in Englishman abroad can now LLBE hio razor, with the addition of a small adaptor.

In the hectic weeks before his whiskers leave his skin?" Christmas morning (he'll bloss the morning of every a Hght or heavy you

year)." Even the man who likes Last Christmar, It reached fanta- or "Is his stic proportions in Britain.

beard?)

a wet shave ("The only way to The battle last year was 15- Fet a real man's shave-not cently fought on the hoardings, my quotes) could have found on the television screen, in the his wife presenting him with an Mr Edgar Herrman, director advertisements which pepper the injector-matie razor with

These Britain's largest dry-shaver papers, and, although they have precision sharp blades. -SHELLEY, of

shop, told me that 35 per cent not yet reached the peale of were ready packed for added

There are over 40 different of all shavers sold are bought togetherness" of the

Either way, the respective malces of electric shavers in Which of us is not by women for men's Christmas ("Together you'll choose a new are in gey Christmas wrap-

manufacturers are determined Britain to choose. Érons, If the shaver is to Blank Blank Blank") they were forever

stranger

and present.

to got him young,

There is a shaving population be a surprise present, the pur sailing pretty close to the brink

On one sicky, the razor blade of 18,000,000 (beards, by de- alone?

chaser is naked to answer ques- In one campaign, a be-dressing- end pony-talled

proprietors have the advantage fration excluded). THOMAS WOLFE.ins about the recipient to gowned wite

Agarod prominently.. sults. child

But this battle, did not end of tradition (and the Engilsh-

They each shave two aguaTE the machino KTHOUSE, BUTO

doubtless discuming ("How to the mo.

(Maral from me-never buy get rim a Blank Blanc for Boxing Day. This year an- man is the most conservative miles in a lifetime and, befars other 150,000 boya will rur animal on earth), of cheapness, they are 60, they have spent a reptitiously giva themselves of relinksity (it takes upwards an electric razor for a man un- Christmas"}; ¦ less you know him well, vory In another Christmas, star- 'their first slave,' Which methoch "BF, 24 hours for millatenatios of quarter of a your doing so.

an ecicio unaor which means wyn. You might find yourself spattered, you were urged to will your son chicos?

Children are the sweetest things of all to own.

-MEN ANDER. (London Express Servic#).

ping.

Youngsters

"I'll be glad to know that you will be happy two at least, together when the time comes.

does that sound I said. "Or too corry for words?"

It was not only corny. I was that is the For also untrue.

St says: THERE IS STILL TIME, BROTHER.

★ THE END ★

-(London Exprove Services.

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