THE CHINA MAIL., FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1980.
THIS WEEK A GREAT BATTLESHIP SAILED TO THE BREAKERS BUT WHAT HAVE WE GOT TO TAKE HER PLACE?
The Navy that is run
ON Tuesday holidaymakers at
the British seaside caught sight of a strange, slow pageant moving across the horizon.
It began last Thursday off
Portsmouth. It ended five days
later off the Firth of Clyde.
on promises
By ROBERT PITMAN
It Was the tidal voyage submarines, all we have been before we make these very ime of the 44,500-ton Vanguard. given is promises and of those portant additions to the Royal
Navy." With a crew of 62 on board there have been plenty.
By this time the American IT BE. Look at the record the last and finest of Britain's
GINS IN 1950. From the Minis. Nautilus had been affont and try of Supply came an exciting in service for six months.
of What Britain's drawing
MOTE ON 14 MONTHS TO in Britain puclear submarine would lock JANUARY 1957. like. Later Lore Fraser, Admail things were geting tense at last. of the Fleet, revealed that the Lord Mountbatten not only re- submarine was already in the vealed that plans for our experimental stage.".
battleships was towed to a scrapper's yard,
Vanguard has no history, no She never Bred a salve glory. in anger. At a east of over £9,000,000 she was completed in 1948, too late for the war.
Yet her journey this week was historic. As the sad, grey procession. passed nul at sea watched not only the Van- guard's farewell.
Before my eyes the Royal Navy of Howe, Nelson, and Jellicoe
passing
Was
pageant to oblivion too.
in
I
ihe
MOVE ON TO 1951,
sub-
marine were "well on the draw- From ing board," He went on to British Embassy at The the public Hague came the announcement the vessel. thai nuclear submarines would soon be in service with Royal Navy.
ask
suggest a name for
}
the
In the meantime the Ameri- cans had two nuclear marines afloat.
Names chosen
Events... were
1962 By now the promis were flowing thick and fast. The TOCH- That is not fanciful. It is the muelear submarine was
Ganed in the Navy Estimates simple truth.
'Experimental'
(which had been given à name
own Neptune) : Its actually working.
But here the story takes unexpected tarist.
Was
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Cummings
The Supremo, Lord Mountbatten, reviews the Grand Fleet at Spithead
In the following months there was a strange slience about both Dreadnought and Neptune stlebre which was broken by an even stranger official statement. IN JULY 1958 It was suddenly that Dreadnought's nuclear reactor would be bought announced
from America. The Cost: £9,000,000. As for the Dread- was still at the sub-hought itself,
drawing-board stage,
A
later manth
the world learned that the American
the Though only the name and the
Many people will say: " now moving Nautilus had sailed under
fleg (provided it isn't made of possible. We are a minor nation Look at the news North Pole tee-cap. rapidly.
Japanese cloth) may be truly today. We couldn't afford it.” . Anshes:
Not until June 1959 was the British, we have the submarine I was reported that the engine.
But in that case what has FEBRUARY 1952. Lord first section of Dreadnought's of the New Age at last, We have been the point of such vast would be ready in prototype by Mountbatten appeared in full hull laid in ย ceremony by the next summer.
the key to modern power." defence budgets all these years? naval uniform on television Prince Phillip. And it became
But here is the extraordinary Have we seriously been the Meanwhile, also in 1952, the guard is gene Where are the keel of the American submarine sorting through suggestions for known that the hull too would thing. Even that isn't que any worst-laxed nation in the world strategy
the submarine's name,
be of American design,
For, of course the in order to pay for something Nautilus was laid.
MARCH 1957. The name Thus we approach the climax, longer.
demon which was impossible? NOW EUGE FORWARD Dreadnought was announced by That will come on October 21. Americans have just
strated how city-shattering mis-
But of course It was not im- On that day, Trafalgar Day, THREE WHOLE YEARS TO the Admiralty, JUNE 1957.
The Admiralty the Queen herself will launch siles can be launched from their possible. Why then was it not new submarines, is that though 1935. What giant progress hed The answer
done? Why were our Icaders so The difference slow to foresee the coming sub- Britain is pouring it more on been made in Britian? Was told us that helpful talks about Dreadnought. Of course, there defence than in any peace-time the keel of Britain's submarine the submarine had been going will still be months of fitting-
Do you expect the Dread marine age? year since the Navy was born, laid? Not yet. Was the engine on with American experts. But out, tests, and trials. But the
Ah, that thing will be afloat at last.
nought to fire such missiles there is not one outice of effec- ready in prototype? Not exactly, the suomarine itself?
a different matter,
We
At last, after ten years. Ten 100? The answer is that it tive steel ready to put to sea But in October. Lord Mount was
cannot. It is the wrong sort of in the Vanguard's place.
batten, the First Sea Lord, was were told nothing about that. years. TEN years.
Yet perhaps you may say: submarine. It is designed only In an age when war and able to make a splendid promise Although In November 1957.it
We He was announced
anyway," we have it for fighting other ships. on about nuclear submarines.
that the pro- "Well, peace will depend entirely
reactor now. We have caught up, haven't got any Polaris mis- siles. If we had, the Dread- nought could not curry them.
Yet let us suppose that the story were different.
For what modern vessel will we have left now that the Van-
Navy's
submarines? atomic Where are the under-water mis- sil to suplant the Vanguard's 15-inch guns?
the missiles carried by atomic said: "It is only a matter of time ject's British nuclear
SPIES
AMERICA UP
ON GROUND KEEP
IMMEDIATELY after the U-2 incident it became
necessary for the U.S. to intensify convention- al espionage efforts in Russia. U-2 operations. carried on successfully over a long period, had supplied America and her allies with complete photographic coverage of the Soviet Union.
ventional methods will serve and under constriction-are for several years pla-pointed. So are the plants The maps in the U.S. Intelli- where they are manufactured · gence agencies show the posi- training schools for tions of at least 10 inter- and the
missile continental ballistic launching crews and main- tenance engineers.
All missile sites-in operation
Ten sites Now that the spy fights have had to stop. it is preessary to rely on the work of agents on the ground in Russia to keep the picture up to date, U.S. service chiefs say that having got the broad. basic picture from the U-2's, 'con-
ARTIE...
OFFICE
WELCOME FOREIG
HOME
Buse-
"Who's been dupiny Yiy
(ICBM) sites in Russia. They are strung out in a wide are. from Kalinin, about 100 miles north of Moscow, the Pacific coast.
Insurance Their disposition gives credibility
Russia's claim to be able ta strike at any part of the world and that includes Australia and New Zealand
The number of these long-range missiles actually available for
1s estimated at fring
1 minimum of 50, but could be eansiderably more.
In addition, about 30 inter- mediate range ballistic missile
ΤΟ
DATE
By HUGH DUNDAS
London Express Service.
Criticism will naturally be wake the Government and the directed at Lord Mountbatten, nation-even if that had in- for he is the one man who has volved Els resignation. How preferred been with the project virtually unfortunate that he from the beginning. But he to have a dilatory policy Im- might reply: "It was not my posed on him. fault. I was all for a national.
based én atom sub- His father, Prince Louis Di was forced to re- marine programme, I pressed Battenberg, for it more than anyone, But sign from the Navy because of the politicians thought other his German connections. That wise." And indeed the evidence was his tragedy.
But it may go down in his- suggests this rhay be so.
tory as his son's tragedy that he failed to resign.
But in that case how sad that Lord Mountbatten faited to
LIE BACK FOR AN
USSIAN'S Ru Olympit
athletes are having
Suppose that those ten years their hearts tested by bad been used to provide us lying on beds suspended in with even a tiny feet of missile- mid-air. The beds are com- carrying submarines. And supnected to sentitive eltt-
that the ill-fated Elue
pose
1
Streak project had been adapted tronic instruments, which to providing the missiles for measure the "recoll" every them to carry.
time the athlete's heart Do you realise the difference | bééfs. that would make to our place in the world and to our safety? At the moment the Americans Bre asking us for bases for their No one
(IRBM) bases have been pin- The advancing bomber force strategic submarines, pointed by U.S. Intelligence. would shoot off air-to-sur- denies that-as with the soon- More than two-thirds of these face missiles to destroy, dis-outmoded American air bases
are concentrated in North- runt and confuse these it will be a risk for us to con- West Russia, within range of defences before going in for the cede them. And not just a risk.
killer-punch. Britain and all NATO instal- Iations in Europe and the Mediterranean.
Pinpointed
A smaller number of IRBM
bases are sited in South East Russia near Lake Baikal, where there is also an ICBM site, and by the Tartar Sea, north of Japan. Presumably they are there as an insurance against Chinese intransigence.
Almost as important for the pur-
So
poses of U.S. Service plan- ners is a constant check on
Russia's anti-aircraft and early warning installations.
كة
long
the retaliatory deferent is based primarily en manned bombers, it is vital that these sites
precisely known.
should be.
At least 14. early warning sites are the plapointed, seven of them in a chain along the of Russia, Western frontier from Arkangelsk to the Black Sen.
of
Impossible?
Inevitably we will be tied even closer to American foreign policy. If America slid into war, we would slide too,
Professor Vassily Parrin, of the Moscow Academy of Medi- cine, told me this in London last week.
"From these
'measurements,
we are able to tell the sports- man if he is over-training," he few said. "It takes only a minutes, and is not in the least Inconvenient to the man."
'Bounce' check Weight-lifters, footballers and long-distance runners are among those now reporting for regular
But what can we do? Mr Macmillan has put the position well. He has said that, although checks,
risk in having the
HEART
The World of Science
12 A
Peter
Russian hospitals were now equipped with these devices.
Besides keeping a watchful eye on athletes, they are helping doctors diagnose high blood pres sure, heart and lung diseases and degeneration of the arteries,
Drink for safety TT seems there is something.
to be said after bl.
Γ
OLYMPIC
RECORD
dehydration of tissues caused by drinking alcohol have all been found to help animals withi stand the effects of radiation.
Says Dr W. R. Keatings, of Cambridge University, In The Lancet: "After the sinking of the Titanic the only man whê survived immersion in the water until the arrival of the rescue ship is said to have, had a con siderable amount of alcohol,"
Stress clock
MEET
TEET the "pocket G.P.,"
smaller
cigarette packat.
than
*
From the coát pocket, i quietly counts the heartbeats of a man during his daily routine, Each throb is amplified and hotched up on a wristwatch dial, It is the invention of four 1.9. telephone engineers, and doctors are using it to learn the effecti of stress or exercise un businessa. men,
-(London Express Svrolet).
FOR drinking Cash wizards
The anti-aheratt sites are con- centrated principally around
The test called ballisto Moscow and the north west. there is B
the with a string of them dotted bases, there would be an even cardiography measures
greater risk in not having them. behaviour of the whole heart as along the north coast
How different if we had our a pump for blood. Each heart Siberia.
beat bounces" the bed, which So long as the U-2's could dy own under-water missile-feet.
We would still be America's is hung, delicately, on wires. unscathed across Russia this
тапу ways the Each tiny movement sometimes vast complex for attack and allies. In
be stronger-only a millionth of an Inchis defence could be kept under alliance would
it would be more detected by an electro-magnette because Now it is up to the old-fashion-dignified. There would be no pick-up, turned into an electrical ed spy to do the job and a need for Ameriach bases here. signal, amplified and shown up meters, or on paper by a very much more difficult and And there would be no risk of on
an American blunder bringing | pen-recorder. dangerous job it is in the huge atomic reprisals on our heads. The 36-year-old professor, Could we have had such a who his been attending the in the wide-open, free-to-ail feet? Could we have had that Medical Electronics conference underground cold-storage room.” spaces of the U.S.A.
The at Olympia, said that some 60 independence? London Express Service).
constant surveyance.
forbidden zones of Russia tham
AMERICAN NEWSLETTER
THE House is rather less accessible than Buckingham Palace. Dark yews and cypresses shade it. The high, wrought-iron gates are opened by remote control, from one of the 100 rooms in the sprawling greystone man- sion.
nar-
The guard dogs bay and prowl. He is beginning an all-out car tyres from a known
programme which coffes dealer. come and go and the cleansing lawyers
Only weeks ago, it was com tourists inch their cars past in a involves extensive spying on his state of delicious, sláck-jawed, own police force.
Wion practice in Chicago to traffic Hollywood-conditioned wonder. "We are trying every lezat escape conviction for
This is the River Forest, means of investigating our own cuences by sloping a five or ten told me. "Clearly, dollar bill into à driving licence, Chicago, home of Anthony 1. men," he Accardo, called recently, by the there is corruption within the and handing it to the policemen
This convenient custom has head of the Chicago Crime Con- Chicago police department; bul mission: "One of the most pond it's like an apple, with a rotten now been stopped by Pról. ful leaders of the Underworld centre-you have to squeeze it Wilson, and has resulted in much hier attendance at the in America."
to find the decay."
Wilson was chairman of a courts, coupled with a much to lower standard of living for successor to the last many policemen. police commissioner, ho
And it is the scene of a melo-
drama that even. Hollywood selection Board appointed
could not Improve upon,
Day and night
Accardo's lawyers are now working day and night to save
find
â
resigned through ill-health and Top Bunny
is now working in a police laboratory under a police officer lower in rank to himself.
him from standing trial on the Squeezing apple
very same charge that out Al Capone into Alcatraz 30-add years ago-tex evasion,
men
THE Conventon
has finally
Says Jack Schubert, senior chemist at the Argonne National Laboratory: "It would appear thaf in case of a surprise nuclear attack those most likely to survive radiation would be those caught dead drunk in an
Shielding and
cold
by Jeremy Campbell
The professor's job: clean up Chicago
turned out
by hypnotists
Net York,
AVERAGE Arhericum basis are being transformed into financial {wizards through the use of - | hypnosis in psychiatric treat-
ment.
Hyprints is being, used to "ture everything from king love affairs to Tiltering athletes. Many experts the worked, however, thote thy cocomparty boud II- QUẬN Satony and quacks who pre offering quick cures.
A WARNING Recently, the Medical
Americas Association issued vâ blunt warning of the dangeri - of hypolising athletes BEKKy a competition.
But the use of hypietatism, th treating a businessman does fulff, “a legháimate role in the opinion of at least two Ameri- can experts.
at a business executive or Investor is not functioning up to full form, therapy ander hypnosis could hp him ca Who do you think was the which seemed to have the entire only left London because Dr B. M. Dores, Professur ét those lovely Psychology at the University of most popular figure on TV Glen Uler orchestra concealed they tore down
California. the during the convention week? behind the back seat, ready to did Adam Houses near
THE DESTACLES Adelphi," she said. Nixon. Rocky? Mrs Henry Cabot sprint her out of the studios,
"It is not a prop or subelituta Lodge?
Hermione Gingold, mid to be
We drove along the white-for ability, but a means et the only woman in America who feathered lake near Soldier helping suppress anxieties and looks like her passport photo- grash. 19. 2009 WE Fied, where Timney took the enabling the individual to lead maun. Her voice is the mane bag count in 1927 and Roosevelt a full life in business or ele blend of honey, phrodisiac and accepted the Democrade nomi-
ziation five years later, stinging settle.
he scared
The answer is Bugs Bumy, the THE
succumbed to rigor mortis, cartoon rabbit. And he hadn't The foyer of the Conrad Hilton even agreed to accept a draft. once an aviary of political small-
falk, is now empty except for The Trendex Rating Service one or two bustling women, sur- bolled viewers during the week, The board interviewed 36
Her performence bere in an from all over the U.S. V taxmerable piltext and found Bugs Bunty running The government has charged then at last decided to give the breakfasts who linger on like fish with WIEBER Book English French-window 4 and
state perfume after a party. [403 Ber cent). The Republicans tennis comedy had the critics in him with listing his car ex job to its own chairman.
fell badly behind with only 27 a positive staver of approval. penses, between 1956 and 1986;
WEson received a three-year The hotel managers are dir- per cent of the viewers switchied
She has lived in America for as deductible,
contract and a salary of 30,000 tinetly down in the mouth about to their channel. It is part of a fantastic all-out dollars a year. He was instruct the wiis event.
11 years in his spartment house on Fitly-Fourth Street. New effort by Chicago, saddled is it ed to clean up the city and with
York: 200
Is with a complete mythology of the police department. Now They expected much more like passport
Mimic and literary gangsteram,
to purge the city of its most famous export crime.
The most fascinating figure this new attempt to rob Chlajo
he's squeezing the spple. money to be specs. For, with h
This is what happened to the only one millionaire in the department last week, while the books, the social sewukle, the "afies Gingotá. Is chuinfl
histre of fucre, has been lastig, eyelids, convention was in full cry
They call it, the tumeh-box convention” and Fanatikët "one" delejente viflag in € Ch "They'n arving teal tea at
Bix policemen were diaminbed of its international reputation or suspended from their post.
Clando corruption
A seventh was given a prison For
Wilson, dry voices prefer bentence for armed robbery,
eighth reifgned, after
43
of criminology......... troms Wetter what he had bost
Coast university,
^^I began! "With "#_Te zoom on the ground floors, she said. "Now I'm in the cinthoke with 30ft terfaced off Path
a view of T
where."
According to Dr Dorcus, this type of therapy "frees" the businessman, permits him to bring his full concentration to bear on his problems, plus the "I suppose I'm scared to complete range of “hid-know- death of going back now. Iledge, facts and judgment,
Dr Beymour Heribman, douldn't play to one of those quencer Wearing zolltop Chicago physician and secretary westers and eating fish and of the American Boolety at Hill and going home in Clinical Hyphosis also TMA chesbancs.
that "when a businessman's les prootens, hypnosis sa toufdated. 62 Fuccèss 12 due to empodenki
"Treatment in the hands of h
And those London gallery bising themselver and Kirli all
Hoarte It the gallery doesn't like you in this county. It gets thi and tip-teèr cut, so you don't
qualined physician work her move the obstacle to e It could be tervitab para pes
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