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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL, 22, 1960,,

Ten miles a minute

and dead on target

From PETER WOON: Eight Milon High.

BOMB Target No. 5 is a level-crossing..

HB

It lies. 96 miles dead ahead now as our lone Victor Hurtles. through the pale blue sky at 10 miles 2 minute.

I am flying with Britain's mighty, wardeterring V-Force in the fastest, biggest, heaviest, highest flying plane ever operated by Bomber Command.

Electrical

power surges through 40 miles of cable and 1,000 fuses is sit strapped in the jump sent behin the twa plois, my oxygen mask clamped tightly on my face.

Compatern are receiving radar information. assessing it, feeding it out to keep LIA expetly on course, exactly

the right height, as the bumbing

un begins.

Checking

I completely "blind," automatic,

as course.

corrections-are, into the control system.

put

But this is Joe Shaw's no- ment. He is the bomb aimer.

Thirty-four miles out, now, Quietly, Joe starts reading oft the rails for the couni-down.

And here is the V-Force, never aceing the target, but able to hit I from many mliel ubove the earth with pin-point accuracy.

We hond for home now indi soon the welcoming lights of base at Coltesanore, Rutland, are shining through the darken- ing gloom.

The equivalent of 1,000,000 tuns of TNT, high explosive- more than the RAF's entire Deliberately, we overshoot the bomb lond in the last wars Arst time, then round again at theoretically ready for the drop low level and finally down, the in the massive Lay beneath us, brake parachute joling us to a

halt. But there Is Ittle tension up here. The

sun splashes wei- all comingly off the soft-carpried, cotton-wool cloud top far below. The

there, temperature out though, is ininus 60 degrees.

The glant Victor's crescent wings cut through the thin air.

Five miles." "Four miles."

live-

Over the intercom, the onan crew is cheking and re- checking its stures of instru- ments. Skipper Pete Hamill is Just touching the stick, no more,

POCKET CARTOON

by OSUERT LANCASTER

"All still quiet colour- barwise in the croquet

world ! "

London Express Service

"Maree," Over The intercom a high-pitched buzzer suddenly sounds,

"Two miles," "One mile." Elyhi miles down it is a peace- ful spring afternoon,

Thumbs up.

Then the buzzer stops. "Bomb gone," says Joe, evenly.

The crew relaxes, just a litle We bank, fighter-like, climbing through 41,000ft, with the horizon curving gently round.

There are only moments to

wall and then Bomber Com- mand Kround

watchers radio The resills of the raid in figure code, Fayes grin over the masks Pete puts his thumb up to, me. "Very good," he says.

"A direct-hit on the level-.

crossing at Runcorn, near Laver pool. If we had had a bomb on board, I wouldn't be there any more."

Nor would a vast area stretch- ing for many miles around it.

-London Express Service).

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S.A ALL TRAFALGAR MAK SQUARETO

POLITICS

CRICKET

TEIT

SOUTH

AFRICA TEST

A LIFETIME OF FAILURE.

"Atlanst. it's put some lifa in the blossed gamo"

AND NOW HE LOSES YET ANOTHER BATTLE

Strangely, I feel almost

FOR most men defeat is a harsh

FOR

experience. Recently I have

| heen studying, with some fascination, ja man who has wilfully devoted his

life to it.

For three days Sir Oswald Mosley was conducting a legal battle to noset the North Kensington General Election result, where he came bottom of the poll.

It brought him nothing but another. defeat (and an expensive one). He ended up with his pleas refused, and nothing. to sweeten the failure but a compliment from the Bench for his skill in court.

As I watched him, and ister.

sorry for Oswald Mosley

talked to him. It seemed to me compliments on his talents and that this ending, somehow epito- This promise. And no one has mised the whole stury

of the done so little

with a fellme's expenditure of energy and gift. Today Masley is the Outsider more of politics. He is the man whose

man.

Fur, uo one in our time has entered public life with

The wriggle-meter makes you

sit up and take notice

ARE you a wriggler? Do you sit badly? While

you are working, are you really COMFORT- ABLE? Dr W. F. Floyd, 50, who is to be director of the world's first Ergonomics Research unit at Loughborough, can tell you quite quickly.

He spends his time selen- tifically probing our comfort, the has done for 15 years. And he concludes that:

Nearly 50 per cent of us are uncomfortable at work and often when relaxing ai home.

As a nation, we sit badly: because, for hundreds of years, our furniture has been hulit to

the wrong dimensions.

Most of us persist in dis- comfort because we never stop to usk "Why am I like this? low can I improve it?"

Fatigue and pain

mo!

The World of Science

by Poter. Fairley

Dr Floyd fold

"For instruments have revealed some generations, seats, chairs and common faults. fabies have been bulit with little thought for the anatomy and bohnylour of men and

Office chairs with little log- room below, padding that is too zodi, or a cat which does nat

women. We have accepted them slope back at least three degrens, -

either from traditon or habit will never be comfortable. Npr

— without question. But often will railway carriages with a noté

Dr. Floyd measures the muscular activity in different parts of a subject's body an she sits in a chair he designed for GPO telephone operators.

name

M

THOMPSON

mentioned: an is not

For Mosley is 89 'now. When flashes of the

uneasy memory to the Tories, the tightning who made him on MP, and the demagogue are not playing upon he looks like, a Labour Party, who made him a his features.

prosperous, bulky business mon Minister.

coming up towards retirement.

1 am old enough to remember

mesmeric gure the lean, black who thrilled vast pre-war audiences with his inflammable

Mosley is 3 rhetoric, different figure now.

And this decling of a "future Prime Minister" into a political curiosity is a personal drama that defles a simple explanation. Sir Oswald had just come out of court, fresh from defeat, when I joined him and his wife to talk for a time about his strange life and its curlously doomed path.

I had better explain that his politics, and very often his methods, too, are personally repugnant to me.

In prison

in

ver

He offers different views, too, he "Oh, I admit to mistakes," will say, pensively, if invited to look back over his blighted career.

"The great defect of Fascism was to go for action at any cost.

But what interested me WAG his reaction to this new sut-back. He was buoyant, cheerful, brush- ing aside the trifle of another Jost couse and the money it will which meant that Fascism was too prone to ride rough-shod hertles, 10

cost him

somne

of the basic

SI OSWALD AND LADY. MOSLEY.

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been a

I was as though, having by over individual The compulsion of his own tem- ignore

Could he also have perament chosen for himself the decencies of life.

"Thu lesson is that action can wiped out millions of Jews role of an cutest, he found some

did--but what was he great politietan? He said to me kind of bitter nourishment for be too dearly bought. I earned Killer. his ego in one more rejection.

that, while reflecting in prisan doing while that pogrum was in that Bernard Shaw told him, the making? He was taunting when he was about to leave the He laughed about it. His wife, during the war."

Labour Party, that if he stayed What he preacher new, he the Jews in Britain. one of the extraordinary and

become Prime He didelined, to agree! on he would

On wayward Mitford sisters, who says, is not Fascism, which be-

of racial matters, he said stiffy, he Minister. Others said the same. had sat patiently in court almost longed to the pre-war era

He would They could have been: righ!. throughout the long hearing, nationalism. He preaches the merely faced facts. laughed, too.

unifying of Europe as one no- be proved 'right in the end.. He. tion. He has a wild

or; anti- dreain of was not anti-Semitle, carving up the whole of Africa Negro. It had made him enemies. into separate Black and While he did not care. Mosley turned his compelling territories.

I felt it was not a very fruit gaze upon me. "I have had- FO

I said to him that he seemed fal argument-lo purvie.

So he has finished up as the many reverses," he said. "Very, to me to be damned by: one Mdsley could have been a Leader of a- dim., and....... rather great reverses. But it is the

single millstone, round his neck great actor, I suspect. In court, shobby Hule "Movement," the supreme, test of character his association, right up to his he was more like a 'famous, QC sole rüter of h tiny reost, without whether you can survive great latest intervention in Notting than any of the bewigged competition for his place at the

Hill, with policies of raelal counsel opposing him. On the head of antagonism.

platform, he displays-u rure-fiale army. I don't believe he would have for melodramatic. oratory.

TEVATSOS,"

Destiny

His volcu, powerful and attic husky-from. his speeches. in court, took on a fervent note. That is what people look for in public men--the ability to face storms. They turn to such a man when they are themselves facing great storms.*

And 35 he developed the theme, 11 became startlingly plain that Mosley still looks upon himself as the man de- stined to lead hin country from 'dimater. Ho still believes the cali will come.

At the moment, he is the Leader only to a little band of followers. One day, so his burn- ing conviction ussures him, he

they have caused inefficiency, pushing the head forward, eria Ave different sizes of chair and anyone to give me another one," will lead the nation, fatigue or real pain."

seat pressing against the calf desk avaliable, forages four to. he explained.

Dr Floyd studies exactly what happens when the human body site or stands at work. Ilo bad strange tool." A variety of rulers for measuring limbs; coll- pers, protractors, strain gauges and a wriggle-meter.

Common: faults:

muscles.

Amazing

I aquim ceaselessly in my really consulted anatomy sent. But Dr Floyd admits "We. perts."

ex-

18. Some, local authorities are. now taking up the idea.

"There is an urgent need for Pockets full: this," he added. "A child should. nover be forced to

sil with n his nose. I

To almost anyone else it must seem staggering triumph of self-delusion. Mosley has even worked out how it is going to happen.

Ito predicts as an absoluto Russia's first astronauts certainty that Britain, on her Am reals are often too high, book right under

DOUTRO, will: meet because, the designer forgot to dread, to think of the damage will woor space suits with 12 brescut sit in the chair before fixing done to growing bones by using pockets. The pockets will economie collapse.

And when that happens-wly theya. "And many car seats are only one of two standard plzen

carry:

Britain will tum to Mosley, the nt fault, nded DreFloyd, "be-

Dehydrated food and drugs; a man who bore adversity, un- cause manufacturers have never in a large school,"

The Victorian were wrong to

miniature radio transmitter; an atmobingly, the man who offers sit boit upright in their chairs, automatle telephone, for short- the Alternative to our present "Any exaggerated posture is

distance talking). a powerful, | way oflife. are not sure yet if wriggllow, lo a Dr Floyd belleves the main highly uncomfortable," he said, long-life torch; any reiger Antho explains this his eyes true sign of discomfort. Often 12

more free and

counter to check, radiation, with grow morentams, the sharp cause of discomfort in offeem is "I should be is due to a inan'a 'personality --

that deske are too high. "Most easy. We should relax overy-

a warning buzzer to sound in the mouth, bength thaj hooked nase ho may be a restless type British desics have been built to where, simply getting adequate tors spanners and tools and state thardil: the voloe. rather than the chair ho alta of."

plafol with two types of ammuni- strongeridad mors: vibrantá stand 30in. off the ground," he support for our relaxed position."

But even. Dr.. Floyd.in. not flow bullets, and, flaten,

Then he relaxes, and chari Strain gauges theck premure, explains: on different paris of a chalt.

So they are not going to be supplants, the, fron mask, and "That, in two to four too much, relaxed all the time. At present It can make an amazing differ- he is leqturer in physiology at very comfortalte either; trudging humour is permitted to reep- Another meter, wired to the ence. And much, of our dining the Middlesex Hospital.

home from some remote landing pan on those features, once (AO His desk there is three inches apgt.

daphalus suck finisquncy, butynow body, shown how much muscular furniture is the semie fault."

—London Express Service),

Bizrat a little by thaḥ yanad effort is needed to get up, Thara felogis, be thisky, should have too high. "I could never persuade

grow#

But Mosley says, unanswer- ably: he had to leave because his principles would not let film stay. Perhaps he would have driven himself out anyhow."

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