1960-05-07 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1960,

BRITAIN'S ROCKET ROW

THIS is the Gin

BLUE STREAK

THE ALL-BRITISH Blue Streak is a 3,000-mile-range missile capable

of

elivering Il-bombs on Rusalan targets even beyond the Urals. Work so far has cost Clue millon,. It is now abandoned for the omelat reason that it has become prematurely vulnerable to Russian counter-attack.

DO YOU

UNDERSTAND

really

WHAT IT'S

ALL ABOUT?

By

CHAPMAN PINCHER

POLARIS

THE U.S. Folaris rocket is designext to carry an Il-bomb. about 1,200 miles when fired from an atom-driven submarine. Cost of each submarine fitted with 10 missiles is about £40.000.000. Technical difficulties make it unlikely that Britain could have them operational any time before 1970.

SING CINCE the emergence of the H-bomb in 1952 Western defence policy has been based on the DETERRENT--the means of delivering so many H-bombs that the Russians would not attack for fear of insupportable retaliation.

V-BOMBER

7-miles

SKYBOLT

Booster stage falls away

300 miles

31,18 1,000

1

DRAWINGS BY MICHAEL BAND

THIS IS an all-American two-stage missile which is still on the drawing-board. It is designed to allow a manned boniber to fire at a target 1.000 miles away, well out of range of enemy anti-aircraft weapons, If successful it could be mounted on modified versions of the R.A.Fs Victor and Vulcan bombers. Immune to foreseeable counter- measures, it will descend on Its target at 6,000 miles an hour. Because bombers are no susceptible to attack on the ground, Sky bolt makes sense only if at least 30 are kept continually in the air. Maintenance of such an "airborne alert" will push the cost of Skyboll beyond the cost of Blue Streak.

See how stealthily Mr. K is fulfilling

a Stalin

UNTIL recently it could be said that of all the

major targets of Soviet policy at the end of the war which Stalin had enunciated, only one had remained unfulfilled. It had been blocked by Winston Churchill in a stormy session during the first part of the Potsdam Conference.

states"-pnd he guttons.

was かね

objective

BY JON KIMCHE

Instead of helping him, the West has pushed him luto the arms of the Soviet bloe,

There have been no WH ships, no drumatles, no crises. But the Russo-Chinese axis now extends across two continents

Promising

This is not a threat of wor

Stalin had shaken Truman netual canterence. the guide He is still maintaining his from the Sovict Caucasus and Churchill at the outset of look over, saw them to their independent posillon, But those through Iraq, Egypt, the the Conference by a blunt state- separate billets and ensured who watched the machinations Algerian Insurgents to the West ment that the Soviet Union no unoffelal anti Informal get of his step-brother, Ismail Toure Coast of Africa. The Government decided that if Britain was would like some territory of together by like-minded dele. (some called him the Namer to

Sekou Toure's Neguib), fear to remain a major Power she must have anfthe defeated

made it clear that this included

that he may not be able to Thus there force of African territory, INDEPENDENT DETERRENT — ä

oppor- stem the pressure from within At Best Churchill refused to tunity for the non-Communists and without. bombers capable of delivering British H-bombs

discuss the demand, then he there-the Turks, Pakistants, The Russians have now scul free from U.S. control. This became operationa) | delivered an impassioned re- Persians and Ghanaians, for their most experienced Middle ngainst the West, but a contest jection: had not considered example, to co-ordinate their Eastern diplomat, their former for political allegiance, for com- the possibility." Churchill said, policies,

Ambassador Solod In Cairo, to merce and for ideological In- or the Soviet Union desiring to

this out-of-the-way post, The fluence. The real rulers of the confer- other Soviel bloc cauricies tract of the aetuire a large

The Russians African shore. If

ence were the Russians and the doing the same.

on the Afro- this is the

Chinese, and their instrument

Asian front have not been. case, it will have to be con-

was the Guinean (Czech) police in relation to

has hypnotised by the In many ways Guinea

impending many

and the Guinean another problems."

Democratic already been integrated in the summit to slacken their drive Party presided over by the step- Soviet zone more effectively into darkest and, for them. brother of the president, Ismail than some east European coun- most promising Africa. Toure.

-London Express Service,

in 1955 and is still growing.

From the ground . . .

Foreseeing when the Russians could knock downsidered the hombers, the Government started work on

9,000-mile-an-hour 11-bomb-carrying rocket-code-named Awakening

BLUE STREAK-in 1955.

The policy, the programme Fired from underground kunching pits and unjaminable, its

and the organisation follower! purpose was to keep the Russians deterred at least until 1970. Truman intervened to break the lead of the communist bloc. Meanwhile the U.S. had developed the MOBILE DETERRENT the dradicek and referred The Egyptians, were compelled —II.-bonib-carrying rockets which could be kept on the move and Stalin's demand to the Foreign to agree to a reorganisation of not so easily eliminated by enemy rocket fre.

Ministers. In later year, it the secretariat which they bad POLARIS- rocket launched from First of these was

an seemed to the Western Minis controlled in Cairo. I cu atom-driven submarine.

ters that the Russians and remains in Cairo, but # comTM Britain Guned down Polaris last year because of the cost- abandoned this one unfulfilled munist majority in the ex- £40,000,000 per submarine-and continued with Blue Streak. Fubjective.

panded secretariat (now num- Then came the rude awaken. bering 27) has the last word. Ing.

Uncertain

From

the air.

It came in n sleepy African town un the west coast of

tries.

are

JACOBY on BRIDGE

Tens important

at no-trump

WHEN

you

Now the U.S. is designing: SKYBOLT-an H-bomb-carrying | Africa. in a elly of some 30,000

play the 15-17 rocket fired from an nirplane, As this looks promising the Africans and barely any Euro- Thus while the Europeans and W

point no-trumn your open- Government has cancelled Blue Streak, with the immediate loss peans; probably the only capital Americans have relaxed in the ing two no-trump is 21-23 points of £100 milion of the taxpayers' money,

work without a caster pre-Summit city in the

atmosphere, and your opening three Unless Skybolt can be ready by 1985, when the V-bomben printed daily paper in Comalay, Khrushchev is quietly comple!- frump is 24-23. may be near-useless, Britain will be without an independent the capital of the independent ing Stalin's postwar programme, deterrent.

Just Fancy That!

ntate of Guinea,

All 18-20 point balanced hands Soviet influence in Iraq has brought him to the Persian Gulf. fall into the no man's land be established him on the Nile.

Soviet influence in Egypt has tween one and two no-trump and are opened with one of a But these are still somewhat suit and almost invariably one of a minor suit. Then, if partner The leap uncertain positions.

NORTH

AK54 ❤Q 100 7.

22

Q10

48843

WEST AJDU

832 AJB63

EAST A 10871 VA05

742

ISB

4307

SOUTH (D) MAQE

VF:4

1

2 N.T.

Both vulnerable

West North East

Par 1

Pass Ра 3N.T. PAIS PAIS PAS

Opening lead-♦ 5

In iic over a year since Guinea ceased to be a French dependency, Conakry has become a major centre of Soviet in- fluence, It is not, and it is not Intended to be a Soviet military across the continent to Conakry responds one of a higher rank- base, 11 is something much

South as your rebid. With 13 points er more potent in the explosive may become the most signideaning suit you jumo in no-trum a poor 19 (if there is such a political setting of West Africa.

For hore in the heart of Black thing) your Jumn is to two no Atreatly

Africa, there is virgin soil for Touquet on the way to chess state. The police and security

ON no longer have to rely Tournament, he found he had lost all his money and plane ticket. services are run almost entirely the Russians and Chinese; they trump, with a good 19 or any

Then met on English chess player, Mr Barrows, who gave by Czech police specialists. The

parly organisation, complete Egyptian go-betweens. hin enough money for his plane fare to London, plus £3 to help with uniformed children, ex- The West has already com

tends into every village in the mitted so

WHEN Swiss chess player 22-year-old Alfred Withelm orrived at

of all.

him on his way,

At Baynor he was told that the congress director, Mr Norman bush, controls everything and is Guinea that the position of the Fishlock-Lomax, would pay all his expenses,

Commented Mr Wilhelm: "All chess players are kind, but the English chess player must be the kindest in the world."

PAIR of the Queen's swatis is likely to be sent to Belgian Aindustrialist Naron du Four for the lake of his home near Canties.

the real of real power.

and

oblo

many blunders in genuinely neutral Recently, for the first tune, president of that country, Sckou has been considerably the outside world was able to Toure, Entch a glimpse of this power, undermined. For in Conakry had gathered the Afro-Aslan Solidarity Con- ference; 300 delegates from some 60 countries in Asin und Arrien.

The baron asked lila cousin at the Belgian Embassy in London to approach the royal household.

ean have the awans free if he were the The reply came baok: You

French authorities will let them in.

Most prominent among thous Humlans, Chinese, North Koreans and. Egyollana.

Sald the Lord Chamberlain's office: 'Swans do not appear to They run the show. They took Le Judigenous in the Batth of Trance and the Lord Chamberlain | xio Viake,

Ja always most careful over to be responsible for upsetting the

balance of nature,"

Every delegation was given a "guide." Once away from the

Chess News

by LEONARD BARDEN Solution No. 6814: 1

ch, Q-kil; ↑ RTL81, Ox stälemate.

Landon Expren ar

08

♥+CARD Senicke

Q-The bidding has been: North

East South Went 1 A 2. 2

F'ass 24 Pack T

You, South, hold: 431 WA9765 ●K2 47014

What do you do?

A--Pass. You have already shown your full strength and there is no reason to rebid your hearts.

TODAY'S QUESTION Innload of rebidding to two spades your poriner has raised you to three hearts. What do you do now?

Answer on Monday

20 point hand your jump is to, Three no-trump.

With exactly 10 pointa South's club opening and two no-trume rebld follow this pultem. As for North's raise to game he has 7 points and two tena. Seven plus 10 only ndda to 26 but hone ien spots are important cards at no-trump and partner could have 10 points.

Went opened his fourth best- diamond and the Arst fem apat eygaho through with an immedl- abé trick. Then all Bouth and to do was to knook put the aco of hearin and make his contract. with the tricks in opchi mejor suit, two diamonds and one club,

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