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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1961.

WHICH WEAPONS

POLARIS and Skybolt. A

IN

1971?

formidable combination. PETER FAIRLEY TALKS TO THE MAN

One lurking under black

oceans, ready to leap out

and destroy. The other able WHO MUST MAKE UP HIS MIND NOW

to deliver, ot hypersonic. speed, a terrible load from the sky.

These are for 1070. But any Could there be more ultimate weapons than these? Most of thing after that is pure specula- us would say "No." But one tion. As a scientist, he does not 2013.

urcat speculate. "I might just as well in a position of power, is not supposed to agree, say that 14 years from now. That man is Sir Solly Zucker- hormone will be found to

put hair back on bald pates,"

man.

A man of 1981 who is alrently

in 1971.

While the rest of us are still mentally trying to lift Polaris and Skybolt out of fantasy into fact. Sir Solly has moved on 10 years. lle must As Scientific Adviser to the Minister of De- fence, that his job. And it akes that long to bring a major weapon from concept to renity.

Two floors up, in an office clase to the Cabinet Room, Sir Holly daily projects himself into future. To what? His dilemma is excruciating.

History on one hand, warns that every weapon has it cut- ter. But the imagination bog Kles nf anything more deadly

the

than the devices we know today Surely, we usk, the limit of potency in warforn has been reached?

Speculation

1 can only say that Sir Solly tultk

ilat me

news strategle weapons are un boards now.

the drawin

Better weapons for 1070. For obvious reasons, nobody allowed to say what they are. But do we need them?

We may well not. "The weapons we have today could rove to be ultimate," Sir Solly explained. "An yet, nobody has the means to Intercep! Polaris submarines or the ballistie missile itself. It is just pos

that sible tracked. Fabulous."

Polaris could be But at what cost?-

He added: "The Skybolt con- cent is equally invulnerable, although at this moment the One can only adreraft is not. intercept a missile at incredible cost,"

Look, for evidence, at Nike- Zeuя

anti- (Amerien's Brst. missile system). Currently, the U.S. spending about 100 million a your on research and development of it-neurly halt what Britain spends, on the whole. of her defence research.

"in the days of the tank," ho said, "I was simple. Against a

Earthquake Imminent!

yout

big cum, you thickened armour. Today It is cheaper to put effort into offensive rather than defensive techniques."

It is also easier to evade than to guarantee against evasion. To be effective, Nike-Zeus must pick up the target by radur, dis- criminute from: decoys, plot it, Bre a rocket to meet it. pin it down and "killall at 20 times the speed of sound. Who can say it will never fail?

Death ray

The cost of counter-weapons may Dow upset the law of his. tory. For they can make even Russia bankrupt.

So the big weapons for 1970 wil be attackers. Heftler punches, In case Polaris and

should meet Skybolt

their match. Some have spoken of a death ray. "Engineering Re- Uon," sold Sir Solly.

But rays WILL play a defen- sive role. "A wonder sy to tell us everything in our skies is going ahead and will become automatle," be added, "Infra- red techniques will improve. So will ordinary radar, on the per- ceptor side. And there may be

new science."

+

LASER - A new way of amplifying light to tremendous power, An American discovery, on which British scientists are now working hard.

"One can just about see Laser Atling into the picture," he said. "If it does come along. It could be an important supplement to But 1070 is as radar.

far as anyone can took."

To Sir Solly two factors are moro real than scientific -

knowns. The possibility of misjor

puiiifoul convulsions in the world. And arms control.

His task

For the Zuckerman dilemmn is twofold. Not only a he re- quired, on paper evidence, to advise: "Plump for this, dis- eard that task where one small misjudgment today con develop into a big gap in our armoury later, But he knows that any choice is likely to cost as much ng Britain spends, my, to keep all her Universities going.

Small wonder, he saya: "Let spray we get disarmament. I associate myself most power- fully

Government's with the desire to achieve it."

~~(London Express Service).

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"HABIT. LESS

All ready for you to sign! Hire purchuse agreements on the hour, car, fridge, telly, Furniture and washing machine!"

PISHING

TACKLE

LINKERT, MALLS

JAKERS

THUS TRAKLE

BABCIALISTS

"I'm playing 'Botto' with Wille Janca-iç'« Kui miegston!"

Astonishing,__the_impact

Astonishing, the impact of pictures like this

HE is as fastidious as

James Bond in his selection of weapons. He is as tough as Philip Marlowe, as self-con- fident

as Wyatt Earp

THE WARNING and as British as Robin

LOS ANGELES

IGNORES

Los Angeles. THIS city of Los Angeles has a date with death --and the millions of men and women who live here don't know it.

It will be devastated by

voy sever? earthquake any! Down the length of the frav day now, says Professor Bugeture itself the land masses. Benioff, who E probably

jommed tightly together, AIY'

work's greates outhority earthquakes.

t moving t all-i the But every now and again the The other train becomes

too great wul night I sat in Denial's labor-

land masses tory overlocking its lights to the two enormous

have suddenly slip. Then you talked to him about its peril.

is 61: he has studied an earthquake. He earthquakes for 37 years.

Lay Angries is America's ment. third biggest eily.

The professor went on: "As There is no ucubt, the grey- we know precisely how fast the Jand masses are pulling away haired professer folet solemnly, thai Luz Angeles is we can calculate when an earth-

102

Hood.

This is the British Army recruit as he sees himself. At least this is the recruit the War Office has in mind as 11 pri- pares to lunch its biggest-ever recruiting campaign next month.

_of_pictures_like_this

NO OVERTAKING

IN THE TOUGH NEW

ARMY-EVERY MAN IS A JAMES

by TOM POCOCK

1 is upon thla campaign that the Government will depend to reach its target of a Regular Army 165,000-strong by the be-

to advertise with dignity. But vertising of the first year ginning of 1063. Upon the ad-

we did, and now Sandhurst is of the

full and we can pick and choose campaign £726.800 is to be the candidates." spent.

A preview

I have been given a preview of this recruiting drive and it is heartening to be able to co. port that, if the trials carried out by the new recruiting ser eant-the slick: young adver tising executive-have provided an accurate forecast, the fears of an Army. short of 10,000 or 15,000 men will be unfounded.

Bather to its surprise the War Offee has found that It has a posiers of Trooping the

to

crumpled, stained battle order, calmly awaiting an enemy with their automatic weapons.

"You see," Axplained the Equally surprising old colonel, "we stress that the soldiers who had themselves Army is not aggressive. One been attracted to the recruiting slogan we used inst Car was office by slogans like "Your 'Guardians of the Peace." Country Needs You" und "It's a Grond Life in the Arrey," wis the success ol particular

Press advertisement.

In Libya

siertly going to be struck by a quake is due at any point ons al to offer that is not conveyed ly in Libyo, showing the camou→

very severe earthquake.

"It will almost certainly kill hundreds of prople and do ter is absp rible damage. There lutely nothing we can do about 11.

"It could happen today. It is :lready overdue."

I asked the professor how he could be so sure.

THE BIG SLIP

is a Frac

He explained that running the length of Callforula ture in the earth's surface 15 miles deep and 2.000 miles long. ¿On one side of this

line

the

And is moving north al two inches a year: on the other it is moving south.

the 2.000-mile fracture.

"The 1st time there was

ቲ ኬኒ

In

earthquake of any real size in Colour. the Los Angeles aren W35 1857 when the earth

suddenly jumped 21 feet. There was n city here than.

Fifty years later there was a sudden sitp along the

at San Francisco,"

fracture

The young colonel in charge of recruiting publicity pointed to framed drawings of Sandhurat by John Ward, now familiar la newspaper advertisements,

· “Surprising”

Potential recrufts will, it is hoped, identify themselves with the men in the advertisements. "The soldier in the picturo," 1 was told, "must look confident and highly professional. He mist look tough and ns-if he's enjoying what he's doing."

BOND

.

The Army is sometimes quite frank in admitting that its main appeal is the fact that almost half of the 4,000 WRACS leave each year to marry,

Therefore in each advertise- ment there to somewhere a square-jawed soldier-you can tell he's a bachelor by the frankly admiring way he ik staring at the girl, they say.

The most popular women's advertisement showed a young WRAC meer making a tele- phone call from her office some- where in the Tropies (there are palm trees outside the window).

An admirer?

j

for we go-geograph-

MILA

{Melle, wr)

We don't care how

Ically speaking of retirer."

**What's wrong with the one you've got: on? "

"It's all right--I'm an undertaker?

SOLDIER OF THE 60-KEEN, TOUGH, MAN OF ACTION

すま

Parachute Regiment, which at- tracted 98 recruits, five times as many as most units.

The adjutant of a Territorial

By the way she is gripping baltallon tells me "When I the telephone flex it could be joined a year ago we were trying assumed that an admirer-pos- to get recruits by stressing our Fibly

social side parties for wives, that dashing American major in a companion adver- sporting events and companion-

ship. tisement is on the line and

Recruiting was terrible, that the British officer whe eltores her office his moustache

stamps him as a bachelor-is looking at her more in jealousy

This was not the one of the Life

Guards trooper or the piper in full tribal dress. I was a photograph, laken recent...

In the new recruiting car- laged bush hats, eye brows and paign there will be little stress on pay, conditions of service, gun muzzles of two soldiers

the crest of a quarters and uniform. "What appearing over

nopeals to young men," said the sand dune.

colonel, "is

of a combination This picture has had astonish- adventure, travel and service. ing impact, I was told, to judge Yes, It's 'surprising what from the enquiry coupons cut

response there is to an appeal out of the advertisement which

to patriotism." been sent

War to the

Recruiting advertising for the successful advertise- Women's Royal Army Corps, show soldiers, Joa more direct approach.

"When we launched this onto It caused paign in newspapers 18 months have heavy loss of life and severe ago," he said, "Sandhurst was Office.

cmpty. Somo peoplo Other "Any day now it is going to thought that it was Impossible ments happen in Los Angeles. The loss

damuge.

er life and damage are likely to be far greater, as Los Angeles today is a for bigger city than Son Francisco was then,"

ON THE CHIN

I asked why nobody in Los Angeles appears to know about

POCKET CARTOON the impending disaster. fie

BY FRIELL

"This is Spike, my dear. He has an idea for putting แทง Ancient and Modern bitto the 1081 idiom and making it "a"

best-seller'

Condon Express Burción.

raid: "Great pressures are being brought to bear to play it down, ever to hush it up. It could and probably would halt the presunt mass migration into the arca. This silence is disgrace People have the right to know if their lives and the lives of their children are in danger." Could people do anything 10 protect their lives and their homes? Would they have any wwrnlag?

we'll Jual on the

"No, I'm afrai

ve to take this one

chin when it comes.

I told the Los Angeles Dircelor of Civil Defence, Mr Joseph Micciche, about Benioff's [prediction.

He was horrified, But he did not question it. Professor Benioff's laboratory la part

of California's world-famous Int- stitute of Technology, which has produced cight Nobel Prize winters. Nobody would tion warning from such

fource,

ques. 題

PETER HOPKIRK

(Londen Käytona Bafilea),

Half

NON-RECOGNITION OF CHINA

than in irritation.

The War Office now belleves that it was wrong to stress, as it once did, the social security of Army life, the sport and bed alde reading lumps in barrocki.

Recruiting figures for January show that by far the most popu- lur infantry regiment was the

"ALL AMERICANS STILL LOOK THE

AME TO

COMRADE NIKITAV

kendon Exprise seirice.

од

Sandhurst cadets flew off to an uncomfortable and realistie guerilla exercise. In Portugal. Frum barracks in Singaporești, fantry have been sent to live among the Dyaks in Borneo..

DANA MARA

Routine trips

*

This summer a battalion files to Canada for training in New "So we now concentrate

Brunswick, and, before long, the toughness of our training short trips to Africa, Arabia and night marshes, river crossings

most routine." evon Australia will become al-,

and airborne assaults and re- cruiting has more than goubled."

"Every private soldier in the British Army," pronounced a re- Army exercises are becoming imaginative and exciting. Recruiting officer, the other day,

"carries in his knapsacks cently, boll

airline ticket to romantic places. and on

recruits. I don't know what on the will."

on

an.

The raids Bruneval, in France, Rommel's headquarters in Libya And it that doesn't bring in the

-(London Express -Šerolce).

have been re-enacted

actual scene of action.

THUMP BRINGS

A DEAD MAN

BACK TO

TO LIFE

THE

THE man was dead. No pulse. No breathing. Nö sign of life. The surgeon turned to the nursing sistar and said with the calms volca of a man who has looked on death boforo: "Leave him for the pathologist,”.

With that he gave the dead.

man a thump on the chest.

The dead man gaspeti,

He had

Lakon, an unknown mumber of tablets and was in

His heart started beating. In la coma.

Jess

drug

on Ave minutes, ufige n°

injection, his htcathing Tha mirgeon went out for sin -

and blood pressure were fatmaf, instrinnent; When he returna

the sister sald He was déźd.-

story

In coma

To relates another dago of.n Now the pathologist's problem thumped mon being brought lias recovered completely. The back to life and adds:

Is told in last week's both cases my betion was dulle Lancet by Mr Terence fartulious.But it rooms that McGovern, aurgeon at. the solid gunch on the chest' can Norfolk and Nontich Hospital, occasionally' do

more thán merely elve vent to the ex- Mr Medoveriaid that the nuperation of the doctor who sluppet-to-life man wis koritat, feely, he has fudbalkambinus dilda Into hospital föcently,

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