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Prospectors

keep an eye

on flowers

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The world of science

-By Peter Fairley-

SMALL aeroplane roared over the desert. Two pairs of trained eyes looked down on the scrub. After an hour, the aeroplane radioed one-word message "Copper."

A helicopter, hovering over harren hillside a thousand mile away, flashed the word "uranitam."

A new selence was born, The Eelence of air prospecting.

Geologists can now tell what dopts of metals lie under- Krund from n

the look #1 vegetation

top. growing on

certain They have found that types of plant to flourish on ecials minerals,

Californian poppies, for in- COPPER Flying Elance, love puologists took an aerial photo

raph of

feld of them, Around the field they drew a Line. Boring inside revealed a rich copper voin. Outside the

Has there was no copper.

Golden boughs

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4

U.S. Scout rockets over

period, costing four-year between £100,000 and £200,000 a year.

What experiments will go into the British sputniks? Has any instrument been designed ог bulli yet? Who is taking parti

IL

The future

how six

months since this plan was announced. So I unked the Lord Privy Seals office about progress,

Back come this reply: "Wo live nothing to My at the But we hope to be moment. able to make statument in the near future,"

I hope the future is very near, Both those who think that Britain should "keep up with Douglas fir, dwart Juniper the Juneses" in space, and those who think it costs too much, and yellow plne soak up GOLD

to know into their trunks, cones and are getting anxious

thousands are necile. Today everywhere that how even these Lembination of trees is potted, being spent. ground parties dig for gold. And find It.

In

New Mexico, scientist have found that some types of Austard, pepper grass and wild onion thrive on SULPHUR, And that milk vetch and rice grass Lugby lent.

QUOTE from Professor Lyman Parratt, of Cornell University:

is an interesting fact that the time-delay between and the scientific research commercial gadget has been rapidly reduced. It took 112 URANIUM is often found in years after basic principles roll contain: sulphur AND were known for commercial selenium. So when they spotted photography to

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emerge, all there plants growing in one years for the telephone, 35 area they dug for uranium. And years for radio, 15 years for radar, six years for the atomic found it.

Lomb and five years for the The days of the old pro transistor. pvetor with pick, shovel, sieve and pan are well and truly over.

SPACE PAY-OUT

So

it would be the "grossest folly for

?? IS IT TRUE ? ?

IT TRUE that caviaro in ex- sior- pensive because the geon is a tiny fish?

No. Caviare is made from its

Britain to go into space in rce. But the sturgeon itself can a big way. But Britain grow up to 25ft. long and weigh

HAS n

space plan- mere over a ton. three satellites in "rented"

-{London Express Service).

A British Crossword Puzzle

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12

ACROSS

7

1 Soveral beasts in a pound

Bound (6).

7 None hurried, it

N. Africa (4).

uppears, in

8 Relieved the cressure (5).

10 A dotty sort of stop (5).

11 One may get It in one's head

(4).

13 Privato undertaking? (10).

15 Don't let the cargo space go

(4).

16 Dandy In the East End, wo

hear (4).

19 Homicide

of Д athlete? (4, 6).

22 Fades away (4).

24 American workers'

(B).

25 Household cavalry

(8).

26 Lake resort (4)

27 Bird allowed round

(8).

21

DOWN

2 Price of a spll? (6).

12

3 Lebanese growth, possibly

(5).

4 Miks fast (6).

5 Is he also a spitter? (8).

I Lose strength anew, possibly

(4).

8 Mounted on a duck in the

cowboy show (5).

12 This

snake

presumably

doem't madtiply! (B).

13 Went out (8).

14 Paint description (8).

varsity 17 A timber abreast of the ship disclosure about

increase

(5).

18 Marke

meat (5). 20 The U of U.D.C. (5). dance 21 Put out the light (8),

29 Cromwellian soldier without

aldet (4),

a pub

Jerkin',

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD--Across: 1 Jacob,

8 Shroud, 10 Eased, 12 Rebels, 14 Soluble, 17 Less, 19 Interim, 20 Heprove, 22 Horo, 25 Effects, 27 Iberia, 20 Sheer, 30 Treble, 31 Setter, 32 Spint. Down: 1 Josts, 2:Carol, 3 Blur-by 5 Epec; 6 Kimer, 7 Nudien, 9 Deliver, 11 Allege, 13 Banent, is go 14. Unrobe, 18 silt, 20-Rhequs, 21 Priessi, 24 Fares, 25 Caber, Spent, 28 Frees

THE CHINA MÀIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1960.

Are ambassadors

really necessary?

IN informed

circles the

whisper goes round that an attractive situation will soon fall vacant. ·

Here are the details:- Salary: £6,000 a year.

Ex-

pense allowance: £651 a week, tax free. House provided. The successful applicant will be re- quired to live in Washington.

For early in 1900, it is said, Sir Ambassador Harold Caccia, Brain

in America, will return home become head of the Foreign Omee, leaving behind him the most desirable Byerseas vacancy in Britain's public service.

Who will all the vacancy? Already in a dozen embassies abroad the exci Ing question is being discreetly pondered.

Yet I pose a different question. Il is: Why it the vacancy at all?

Why have J ambassador in Washington? A century 10 the answer WHA obvious.

Britain's ambassadora were then both the mouth and the ears of Britain's Government,

Without their despatches the Foreign Secretary would have had only the vaguest nation of what was going OA pbroad-particularly within the InUmate ruling circles,

Banquets at an embassy were well justified so long as the ambassador could pick up exclusive hints of high policy

the turbot while une embassy's string band scraped nut minucis.

uver

Everyone knows

IT'S TIME TO START - DISBANDING THE ARMIES OF RIVAL DIPLOMATS

such

KOS KIEMELINCY.

BRITISH AMBASSADOR

THE

But can anyone believe that Information is exclusive any longer?

Today, especially in America, every twist and turn of policy must lake place under the public gaze. Even the Latest retoor Lite President's gastric system is reported promptly to the world.

by PERCY HOWARD

While the men in the em- after + wigging from the Consider, for example, the bassies are busy putting the English lord, ordered building question of diplomatie Immila-

into code, their operations to cease at once. ity. information masters at home are reading it in clear in the morning news- papers.

times,

Ideed, modern ambassador only to prevent his ment's believing what one else knows already.

Is there a chance today that any amount we allow them in expenses could enable ouṛ am- the bassadors to exert such in- serves fluence In Govern- degree?

every-

even the slightest

Odd thing

Thus in Cuba in 1958 evin the Errol Flynn knew that Castro revolt was succeeding.

Take Bagdad. This year we But the British Governmes!

are spending £250,000 on the preferred

British Embassy there. Yet the 10 listen to Its embassador In Havana

bigger our embassy grows, the more our influence in Bagdad (salary: £2,700 дусо with £6,985 expenses). And the shrinks. Our ambassador influ- Course. that enced King Faisal, of reported

But that was not much use once pour Faisal was shot in Bagdad's last revolution.

ambassador Castro was

at of no account

all.

All he does

What of an ambassador's role as mouthpiece? In the past, ambassadors forged alliances

system

Cummings

Can Kris process of cxanpell- tive fully ever be put into ro- verse?

Wild dream

I have a wild dream that it in which Sie a could; a dream In Washington last montia

leaves Washing- car driven by the son of the Harold Caccia Irish Ambassador knocked on and the British Government utrounces that no one will take down and killed a NogrESS.

Els place.

But charge of homick against him had to be dropped on account of diplomatie Im- munity,

her

That alone sorms to be the ind of gesture that could set the nations demobilising their vast and unnecessary ormies of

-(London Erprats Service).

In Italy in May ex-Quean Tival diplomata, Soraya protested against 53 trunks and suitcases being searched at, the Customs. Her reason? Diplomalle immunity,

In 1850

a Dutch Embassy car knocked down a bit Londoner, who died from injuries. But the driver was not even cautioned. He had diplo matic immunity.

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So here is the odd thing In Laden in 1959 a doctor about our whole

Indian of who was sued by the ambassadors. While its useful. High Commissioner was noi ness dwindles, its cast shoots allowed to sue the High Com- constantly upwards.

missioner in return because of his diplomati immunity.

and negoiluted great treaties, EEFORE 1914wILTI VI What happens today? I there could really use them-Britain is any negotiating to be done, had nine ambassadors, the Prime Minister can do it himself.

their

So harmful

TODAY we have over 70--

In Britain such immunity ex- Seme in tin-pat States

which tends to

5,000 diplomats and TH 1378

was would not be everyone

missed if they

including employees, stunned when Diariell actual-

were swallowed up tomorrow butlers, cooks, and gardeners. 17 made the land-and-sca

in on earthquake-all with Journey to the Congress At

higher status than our High Berlin,

Coranissioners in the great Em- Today Mr Macmillan its pire countries, such as Canada across the Atlantic in one-third and Australla, on whose friend. of the time. Even if the subject under negotiation abroad 13 utterly trivial, he does not en- trust it to a mere ambassador. He hands it over to Mr Selwyn Lloyd.

All that the local ambassador

is expected to do is:-

1. Fix the timetable for the

talks;

+

ship we really depend

The answer

In Washington alone 5,000 people have diplomasito Im- mmunity. They are supposed to be fostering friendly re- Isilona. but, whenever any one of this vast colous claims immunity, nothing but harm Is dono Lo internations.] friendship.

What then accounts for all

Nevertheless, the liability Ji this extraordinary

imrcasca inflation in oiplomatic glamour diplomacy? Why are we spend everywhere. When other

ing so much on our embassies? embassies increase their staff, we increase ours. When oher The answer is that everyone countries build their embassies else is doing it; even though to cathedral height, we have to higher, ti is a

2. Lay on a few interpreters; no one, except the diplomats, build still

zeems to benefit at all. But my edo of keeping up with the 8. See that there are fresh word, how they benefit!

Jonahs. flowers in the embassy's front hall

"Ah, ver, but there te sonte- thing else," the devotees of pro- fessional diplomacy exclaim. There is the question of influ ence; there is the mystic power for good which only an bassador in a really stately em bassy can ezert,"

Well, certainly the ambassadors had much once in the past.

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