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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1961.

BEHIND THE COMMON MARKET LIES A GREATER THREAT.

Does Macmillan know what he is doing?

THE COMMON

IF there were any on-

timists who still

dreamed that it would be possible for Britain

'to belong to both Com-

-by-

ROBERT PITMAN

Cause

moment's

monwealth and Common blame them if they answered: Britain Market, those dreams "Yes, but hate can TRA be annoyance in Washinginn. must have been finally certain that-after two or three

Dar-Man7a. Sendja. Hore. He has stuck to that resuive. doused by the recent and Thornescroft won't come

When Washington has wanted chilling communique frutting round ayoki shunting Summits, he has been all for

*Abmodon ship"?" from Ottawa.

COMMON MARKET

Cummar

He may not even have con- sidered that as a result Canada, Australia, and New Zealand-

Common- cut off from the wealth-would inevitably fali neatly into Wall-street's lap.

So he told Mr Macmillan "If you stay outside the Common Market, the West wi}] be gravely sulli. For that rea-

son I want you to join."

Mr Maculan might have

replied that it was not Britain

Summits. When Washington that was splitting the West. It has been against compromise was not Britain that was form- Whe then should such an over Berlin, he has promptly ing a new bloe and threatening Every line of the text icy tre-dates man as Harold Mae- shuddered at the very idea. to build a now turi wall with resentment and suspicion, maling Chuye committed the

against her allies. It was the It could hardly have been Biander of sending This trio

Bow logical then that. when countries of the Common

elected Juhn Kennedy jr it less cheery

had been round in the Brst place?

was

the line President and took issued after the collapse of talks between opposite sides

suggest---that at Britain ought to join the in the Cold War.

The question

can

1 it

some

of

he is really alarmed by Our Common Market, Me Maumil- long-term econentie prospects? lan was suddenly convinced Does he feel that the Toundas the gilering, merits of the tlons of our ecitomy

so Cummon Market. are #sund · that we have got to Join Europe?

that

are

Tory Party spoltesmen Aunt saying But no decision No need now to ask whether I hope that he feels no such over the Common Market has bren made in Whitehall. Quite it would dinage the Empire thing. I have before me a copy

The decision has been for Britain to join Europe. The of the Tory manifesto at the true.

made in Washington. question is whether we

1959 General Election, less than repair the

already damage

Orer two years

Mr URO.

Yet how trugle,

Mr Mr Macmillan's facsinulle signature of inflicted by the fare

Marmitati should not have Macmillan's three Ministers, and beside a picture showing asked himself why It was made.

Mr Macmillan's hooded eyes President Kennedy was not try How Incredible that a Tory gazing out wisely and sincerely

ing to serve Britain's interests, Government should be real the electors appear these That is not his job. He is sponsible.

America's President. not Britain's.

AL

Tory

words:-

Iiti conferences

" do wit

reutenber any

Empire has been described period in ur lifeime then the the kind of crisp phrase which yng has been so sound and falle freshly and naturally from the prosperity of our people Tory lips as a great and nuble

sovittely spread." ship ploughing future.

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into

the

Yet what has Captain Mue- milian done for woon as the

course talD7

ahead bran

ile his not bothered in con-

1 Mr Maentillan's words are to be relied on-and inderd They have got to be relied on -whol can hove happened since that time of unprecedent- eri renomic soundness just 21 months ago?

auit either passengers or crew. Has there been some sudden All he has doar has been to and tantostle economic shock send round his three stewartks walch has secretly pulverised saying: "Put on jour fiju et reklike foundations bells and get ready to jump." matter of months If so, then

you might think that in

Even if it were false alarm, the 'amor Marlot would be could unyora in the Dominions The Tt thing Mr Macmillan be espected to have much con-

Im

wonki row do.

that? Even if law Cabinet is No one opens the door when now forced to give up its in- the Bood in eoming down

tentium to enter the Common Street. Morket. the mere intention

will have had a cruelly wound-. ing effect.

Useless

Equally, we do enter, it will be useless to whisks out a carefully selected array of trade figures and to argue, DE saine glib folk are doing that after a trilling decade or so of tem- porary calamity--the

the

If (as some wiseacres warn)

European competition is pricing.

our factories' goods out of the

world market, you would sure-

ly think it sheer lunacy

to to

choose that very moment open out home market to European compelllios too,

The

reason

Empire But, of course, there has countries could even get some been по sudden economle materini ndvantage From the shock. Mr Macmillan WRA Common Market In the loux telling the truth i BGD when he wrote that our economy was Antind-and, basically, it is still as sound today,

run.

It is not Just material advaḥ- topé that has kept Canada, Australia, Ind Now Zealand

So what has happened since with us until now. It was not October 1959 to make all the the thought of material advan- difference? tage that made them keep sending the best of their youth across the world to man defences In 1940 when other nation had written us off.

aur every

It was unt the hope of my terial advantage. It was some- thing called loyalty - ROME-

Bon of President Kennedy.

Markel.

But Mr Macmillon, I seems, made no such reply. He did not argue.

Does

Still time

Four-minute warning:

it all seems so unreal

this wilderness...

in

THE

is

Fylingdales.

scene before me

strange, and by J. W. M. Thompson

beautiful, and possibly

the most expensive ad- vertisement of our In- labour dustrial problems yet constructed.

Up here on these wild and stirring Yorkshire moore, same- thing like 49 millon is being spent in building Britain's Bel- iistle Missite Early Warning Station.

11 is supposed to play a crd- | ein! pati u the Western de

fences. 11 now seems vertain that

troubles are going to disputes. There is an enormous ke ta inte starter.

ainuunt of work still to be done. is a rather stariling stole

Recently one of the contract-

ors tried to recruit an entirely new force of steel erectors, hav- ing sacked 70 men for persisi ently holding up the work. But most of the men have been re- Instated.

The whole constructing pro- gramme is being discussed to see 1f jobs can be re-shuffled to make up time lost in strikes and

THE HUSH- HUSH PLANE

Secrecy shrouds

the new Trident -but is it necessary?

OR a reason I find hard to understand the -security wraps have been placed around the 600 m.p.h, de. Havilland Trident triple-jet airliner due to make its first flight soon after the end of this year.

my

When I visited the de Havil- and works at Hatfield, guldes kept me well away from shops where the the assembly prototype Trident (with several others) is rapidly taking shape.

No

security 13 military Involved. So why the mystery? The answer is that de Havillands do not want their rivals abroad, especially the American Boelag concern which is producing an airliner that is largely a copy ofthe Trident, to know just how the aircraft is shaping, Understandable-f one was kept out.

Airlines in talks But de invlliands are having

with many

airlines - talks

customers possible

£1.250.000 alrilber.

every

NEWS IN THE AIR

by James Stuart

are

Twenty-four Tridenta being bullt for British European Airways. To spred the work. much of the remaining Comet 4 production Над дош been switched from the Hatfield' factory to the de Havilland works at Chester,

the German designer

"Nothing must wobble when the dishes are in use," it was explained to nie gravely, “Atter all, we've only got four minutes, and it would be a pity to waste a minute steadying the equip. ment."

Had I walked on for a few miles across the moor I would have come to the sea. And out there, for all we know, are of affairs, and not an easy one Russian Polaris-type submarines to explain.

which would certainly not give croctors Bre not four minutes' warning of any

Thes have been, thing they chose to launch in Helting £30 a week or more for this direction. a full week's work, and driving if to their seaside lodgings in their own cara.

But something has gone sour.

*Phe steel badly paid.

'Prima donnas'

'Hazard area'

Perhaps that thought, too,

bas

dimmed Ang senac of urgency among the steel erect. ors. Then there is the unsettl- Some say that, because this ing presence of the "hazard is un urgent defence Job, with aren." This innocent-serming the British Government canit- stretch of heather reaches for- led to the United States Govern- wurd for more than a indle from ment, they felt they could put wire

will the transmitters their demands at pistol point. operate. No one will ever be al-

lowed to 150 there. Others here see it as yet an- The radiation from the equip- other case of the "tabour trou- ment, emilled as it probes for- blo which regularly occurs ward' thousands. of miles in Among Jorge industrial staffs. space, is deadly to living things One said to me, with even a at close range.

hint of contempt: "What are It will probably wipe out thị called 'inbour relations' are very bird population (although var dificult today the men are hopeful theory is that birds res such a lot of prima donnas." ceive some danger signal from the radiation and chante Perhaps the very nature of-

course). At any rate, the grouse the thing under construction and the skyiaries, who are sing has a disturbing effect. A great ing like nad at the moment, will fortune Is being poured into have to take their slim chance. barren peat and rock-to create The operators, on the other a scenic weapon which hardly hand, not being so expendable, anyone here understands, and must be protected; and a singu which causes even the experts jarly bizarre form the protection io argue about is value.

is taking. Meanwhile it is extraordinar- ly pleasant

here, even though there is nothing to give us four minutes' warning if the Bussines decide to fire their rockets.

קט

Every single operation bulld- Ing is being cloaked in sheet metal to screen off the radia

on The Quick inetul skin wraps ruund the walls, over the

It roof and under the floor. The sky is the clear blue of in all welded together-50 miles a thrush's egg, and the ground of welded joints. Not one hair- rells away in vast billows of line crack in permissible. heather, all purple and green. So the

tadar men will be

1 happen to remember this working inside the biggest tin place when it was a wilderness can

In

the world, dependent one of the last corners of upon air-conditioning and arti- England where you could stand ficial light... right in the In the middle of a landscape centre of this most magnificent and see no trace, anywhere, of of natural open spaces. man's existence on the earth.

Surrealist

he should staunchly support the 1 is natural and wise that

American aillance. But is he really helping either Western strength or even Anglo-Ameri- can friendship by conforming to every twist and turn of Ameri- can policy?

Il could be argued that he is destroying both."

Is that really what he wants? Want to be

construction, ho really remembered as the Lord North of the television age?

There is still time for him to shake off the small cilque of He hoped that Europe -

who faint-hearts and fanniles strengthened by the country are determined to steer us into which kept up the light for the Common Market. There is freedom in the last war when still ilme for him to save both the rest of the Continent had the Commonwealth and himself. packed it in—would provide a

But that time can be counted solid defence buffer between in days,

lamdon Express Service).

ng Britain

His immediate motive in get

integrated with Europe was strategie.

America and Russia.

CONCLUDING THE SERIES ON LONDON'S MAGISTRATES

by

the

These airlines have also been Kurt Tank. famous German considering the Boeing 727 airplane designer he produced would be remarkable If the the Focke-Wulf 190 of the war: American firm did not know the deadly rival of the Spitfire state of de Havilland progress on heads the design team which has the Trident.

just built India's now supersonic Moreover, all the details of the HF.24 twin-jet nahier.

The HF24, bull Trident have been published. and the Hawker-Siddeley Group Hindustan Aircraft concern, has ghairman, Sir Thomas Sopwith, Just made the first fight. It is has given an indication in the fine looking -- rather British in last few days as to when the appearance. In fact. the airliner is likely to make its German designer has given the

indian maiden flight.

airplane two Bristol Britain needs customers for Orpheus jei engines to provide this fine aircraft, Let us tell the Its Dondon Express Service). world how nearly ready it is!

to

They will even have to travel their acientific ants' nest along metal tunnels cut off from

all contact earth.

For me,

with the air or the

this and irony says much about this extraordinary

The wilderness is still here, all around, and it is now called place.

national park. But bang in the In a landscape where barely a middle is this surrealist Inter- stone has shifted since prehis- ruption of weird buildings under torte times, we have found it with hundreds of necessary to create this science- men more or less busy on them. fiction nightmare-in the hope The whole thing fa so unreal, of avoiding infinitely worse

not horrorS. and so prodigal, inst it is surprising some people have lost

One day, whenever the work their sense of balance.

is folshed, it may give us Tour I have just walked round the minutes' warning of the ap- three concrete pedestals which prouch of mass destruction. (one day) will support the 175-

Four minutes. The time mad ton radar "dishes." There pedes chine seems to have crashed tals weigh tens of thousands of gears auddenly on thero tons, and reach down 20 yards akcient moors, below the ground.

-(London Expirata Service),

A nudge, a wink SILENCE IN COURT

mean

a lot

in

this

The Story of London's Magistrales

court

Dickens knew so well..

said

in

flrinly

83.

but neatly

the

combed elegantly bast one dell- by looking past the dock at theif clous ear. She is à drúg addict. Jacks Powell often learns a lot, She has run away from the There was the case of two car hospital where she was being thieves chased by the police, one treated and has been found with of whom escaped. packets of heroin, and cocaine, As he tried the single pri- Her parents are in court and soner, Powell noticed a youth in the public gallery nodding of Perhaps Hill Bikes would have shaking his head and mumbling been more impressed than Fagin to himself as each question wai by the youths who follow her in put to the accused.

Quietly Powell ordered the dock. They are tough and cocky and they wear their hair policeman

promise to take her back.

zometimes,

ring.

"You

to guard the public

HIS JURY'

it high helmet-erests, and, extrance. Then he ordered the TF Mr Frank Powell woman who appeared the cer in the courts 50 years ago, from Dover or Harwich to some

a single got car police witnesses to examine the dock recently with a baby in her the first rung on his ladder being allle off Gray's Inn-road,

faces in the public gallery. DI

recognise anybody? A had his way Oliver arms.

they a junior barrister's clerk's job in.

Now comes an old woman of Some are charged with being minuto later the second ckt Twist would

Sir John Simon's thambers, be com- The magistrate

"Auspected She is poorly

persons" hanging thiet had joined his friend th about parked cars and it is the dock. dressed and she is deat. She stale taxing how many have a string reading for that he could not deal with the pulsory

a skirt from Marks and Spen- of convictions at courts all over defendant while she was holding THE NAMES metropolitan magis the child. Cried the woman:

ceza and she is gently led before the country. trates.

"Don't part me from my baby!" There are the Cypriots, for the magistrate. The pubile gallery turned accur example. Some 10,000 Greek Cy-

any you've got The policemen who arrested rights," Powell tell one.

your One of its lessons, he would ing eyes on Powell, One simple thing. The elec

Dut

some Frank Powell hears who was priots live in this quarter and her gives his evidence and her what about your explain, was that although Oli- himself rather touched.

rospot#}}}£}[= 10,000 enzet a year — the other Powell makes maintenance at history. She had been a domesticles?" But more effective than two magistrates at Clerkenwell ver looked guilty of pocket- It has been alleged against

picking. he wan

with courts servant until she was 74 and she any lecture in Powell's technique allaro anulher 20,000-and tile The woman was quickly con- der arrangementa Mr Macmillan that his polleler

not, just as

and Famagusta as lives alone in one room, with no of splitting up many youths

with coxcomb vicled and had obviously earn in Nicosia

ព ិរ

experiehen hat lot itlis to ★ uras are based on shifting principles. haircuts who appear before him eed three months' Emprison frequently as other magistraten family or friends, on an bilinge that they switch and fniter in

He knows they love to hwag- ful conclusion. Clerkenwell Magistrate's macht..

deal with say,

and pension of £2 Ita, a week. Her Nowcutle According

dock shoulder to Ker Into the previous character, saY* Coventry.

As he lutens to answers froth policeman, has been very good gaze of their girls in the public gallery and he has coms to know allouder, under the admiring the dock he watches the pubile Cypriot and West Imtiape ap-

Indeed. pear in the dock simoet every

gallery. So he reminds unde for more than a quarter

"Omcer," "aya Puwell with a cach day of the cumink week. What sort of reaction--a nudeh, convicteil, although tế was mov- Thinking of the baby, Powell day and

defending advocate."

likely to follow a particularly I kept Jo one unvarying

come from outside Europe.

defisted and lost, oficer principle since becoming Prine Kings Cross-road in 1945. 23 sent for the probation

Then gently he tells the old

audacious He. He need not aut But by far the most frequent woman not his steal again and he more

They And Mr Powell much upon this intimation, of course, Ihla, 100, is Dicken's Landon, and and asked her to make arrange- Minister old the ruins of the Me Powell in york conscious of meiste for the child to be kept inhabitants of the dock are the tells the probation officer to look Twist round Me Fang, but his amenable than Ollver

But it doer lead him to think Buez aftermath,

at Holloway, "I can't do fit,” Trieb.

that after her. A surge of sentiment kind van do heavy,

ht miau by sive Aller Baer he cancelund 19) The Fleet river flown under the replied, "because sho only Strangely their quiet, gentlo follows her out of the court.

shiglatrule's court in the United to be his duty to gai on good the ruati outside the cuurt. borrowed it for the hearing.”

standing politely store

Kingdom with what cosild ba Men Tor, after all, supposing that ferma

Amerion. Near by in the faded elegance of agala wilk

But there is much in Finsbury, the magistrate contrant with

callest a jury. we ever experienced another Think

was the keynote at his Peter Circus and Lloyd Eques Bloomsbury, Bt Pantras, Com the polles witnes's tale 1940, or supposing that Mr

polley. Nat ho háy carried that end "aplendid Georgian horien dats Town, azyl Islington that mayhem from the night before. Macmillan were rejected by

Near hore work the diamond- now crumbling rookerien with a Dickens, who lived lin Doughty- *Europe and decided to appeal

deller to far that he has be family on each floor if not in pirvel near by, would not re- potatown and the watch-makers is taken by a silm, golden girl of como dérouted by it. to the Dominion 10 lightra

oach foot.

cognise. And much has changed and the diamond smugglers 19. the Empire's trade systems in From that time onwarda hẹ Blekpus would have been at since Frank Powell, how a brick and the watch = smugglers. She weare a quède jaqket and that case no one could surely decided that nover, again would)omiured za Powell at the young and hasliny 10, rigried his ease Often Excisemen follow a trall her smooth, blonde, Hair la

10 opportunism Court are lens guilty than they thing which has been slatter wilm. But the allegation does appear.

nol at the facis,

ed not only by Mr Macmillan's approach to Europe but, above

It might add that his is the BORROWED

If you examine the facts you court whore Oliver was wrongly

all, by the manner of His ap- will find that Mr Macnianed, from Hatton Garden to gave her one month. Later, ho of the defendania before Powell Anile, "you make a very good Alone in the dock they look wink, or u adilsfed grin s

proach.

Alarmed?

the fact.

*

NARCOTIC

مجھے

In starting contrast, her place

THE FACES

¡Dickens would certainly hav been richly amused by the pub- it gallery at Clerkenwell and thie dee the magistrate inakes of

li It is packed each morning with friends of the acouted and

Tom Pocock

on

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