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As Kruschev talks of interplanetary travel
AMERICA
RECOILS- WHAT THE HECK'S WRONG?
By RENE MacCOLL
TOP DAILY EXPRESS CORRESPONDENT
CURRENTLY IN HONGKONG
New York. "DAMMIT all, what the heck's wrong with our lot?"-that sums up the reaction of the average American to Russia's latest space triumph.
THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1961.
TI.S.A
U.S.S.R
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Now that the BBC has begun pulling our legs...
G
OOD for the B.B.C.!
WHE
Little did I think that our Portland-place Auntle would ever countenance the splendid hoax which, it is now. revealed, was perpetrat- ed on the Third Pro- gramme last month. What
billed 群看 a "Mobile for Tape and Percussion" by an exciting arid controversial new Polish composer, one Piotr Zok, in fact consisted of 12 minutes of utterly formless and spontaneous whacking of gongs, drums, and souca-pans, carried out by Mr Hons Kollar and Miss Susan. Brad- show of the B,B.C. And not ally did thousanda of unsuspecting listeners, scent his plece of nonponse with Area, and British ogriculture, reverent respect, but tio pext which has special problems of day two of Britain's mast ita own on top of thune which 11, pompous newspapers solemilly shares with the Six.
reviewed Zak's Track,
'Say, buddy, this is a hijack...with the compliments of Allen Dulles!"
London Express Bervice.
BRITAIN FACES A LINK-UP WITH EUROPE. BUT ONE QUESTION REMAINS-
SUPPPORTERS of British membership of the
Common Market argue their case partly on economic and partly on political grounds.
Their economic arguments. look very flimsy on clase examination, but their political argument looks, at first sight, more serious.
The Common Murket. they say, will give Western Europr
unity Arenter
and
Krenter
strength to resist any possible the Communist
All the doubts, frustrations, and bewilderment which have clouded American public opinion sincerent from
world. Russia first leaped ahead with Sputnik I nearly four years ago have been intensified.
A few people still affect to
doubt the genulueness of Cus-how Russia did it
monaut
Titor's
Teut. But the
great majority of Americans are deeply aroused and alurmed by this latest reminder of their In- feriority to the Communists in feld perhaps vital to the na- tion's survival.
Typical comments by New Yorkers out in the streets weret
"Announcing this while Thov was still aloft, shows how con Adent they were they could get blm down safely."
"They are far, far ahead of
us. How did we let it huppen?"
"What
a propagandu mash-
hit for Brusches?"
And point duly policeman Marco Panelogton, directing the irane in Times Square, New York, exclaimed: "This scares me a te, I don't mind teling you."
A
marble
Thousands of Americans spot- fed Titoy's spaceship over Char- leston, South Carolina, ou the
night of August 7.
Sald Ken Kiyev, of the Chur- leston rodio: "It looked just like.
a marble up there.”
And he added wistfully: " sure wish it had been une uttr marbles."
From President John Kennedy there was only alience.
EACH SHIP
A STEPPING
STONE IN
SPACE
By
Chapman Pincher
THERE
THERE is no mystery about the Americans are Ilmping so lamely behind the Russians in the race to the moon.
The Russians believe this too. which is why all Communist Parties and some of their friends are among the opponents of the Common Market.
I believe that the Coinmunials are wrong on this, as they are wronk on many other things, and that the Common Market sup- porters are wrong with them. But we fought at least tri consider their argument.
One thing is obvious. If what was being suggested was a com- plete ferierntion, like the U.S.A.,
it Western Europe were to have
Commonwealth, the Storling
WILL THE E
MARKET
COMMON
EVER WORK?
by William Pickles
Senior lecturer in political science
at the London School of Economics
a single. contral Government. so split Europe economically with one army, one navy, ong into two for the Arst time slace air force, one Foreign Office and the defeat of Napolcon.
federation nobody
So
of 1806. can prove from history that ike Iden
federallats nonsense, as the Forget that a British Govern- so on, then Europe would ba
has
nearer come
believe it is. t stronger, provided its peuplen ment
with the Common- They bellove that you cannot quarrelling too much breaking were no!
wealth than any Government run economic affairs efficiently antong themselves.
trom the centre it you have And we should simply have since Its creation. te calculate carefully whether Forget that the united Europe half a dozen or more separate acquiring that strength fusil is to build a tarif wall against foreign policies, or run separate fled us in sacrificing the Com- some of its oldest friends and foreign policies if you don't monwealth. Britain's country- allies outside. Forget all that, control your own tariffs, trade- side, aral her influence in the and simply look at the Common treaties, and so on.
The
reply "confederalista" world.
Market soil.
The Common Market countries that the foreign policies must be and the But nobody is proposing that. Some of the Conanon Market are quarreling with each other "co-ordinated,"
answer by asking range of subjects federalists
hope there would have proponents are passionately anti-Ca whole
which they never quar- what federalist, and many of these about
before, for the simple been of co-ordinating polleles who do want a federation do not relied
over Suoz, the Congo, Bizerta, Algeria, and the rest.
No proof
see it comlag in time to influence reason that the subjects of the quarrels are part and parcel of today's Communist problem.
So that is not the claim. The the Common Market structure. The sequence of Soviet space- elaim is that the Common as it now stands will flights from the first Sputnik Market
its member nations 50. four years ago to Major Titov's kait
ihal their Logother 25-hour orbit shows that the closely
Com- Humlans have planned their capucity for resisting
will be very with one major | múnism
much programme objective manned explora- | stronger. Lion of space.
In contrast the Americans have dipated their effori in scores
First stage
The first and most serious is the quarrel between federalists and contederalists. The Com- mon Market is run partly by commission of bureaucrats and partly by a Council of Ministers. The bureaucrats and one or
I think the federalists are right, that "confederation is a meaningless word, but whether they and I are right or wrong, the fact remains that "federal
both ists" and "confederalists" regard the other as enemy No. 1 and are perpetually at one an- other's throats.
The second big quarrel is over the promised common pulley for agriculture.
"The French Minister ot Agriculture - saja, that the are sabotaging the
Germans But the Common Market is two of the Ministers want a
up to the end of its federation of the kind I've whole thing, white, the Germans of unrelated satellite projects coming
of the already described. The others, dig their tous in arid say -to chart weather, messure fourth year, the end magnetism, take spy photo-famous Dry stage of the tran- like General de Gaulle and Me nothing.
sition period, in which most of Macmillan, want something that graphs, and detect missiles.
Its internal problems were to they call a "confederation." be solved. If it is to bring
A confederation seems more unity, some of that unity mean a group of States of which and ought to be showing now, each has its own foreign
Look at what has actually defence policies, but which run happened. Forget that the their economie and social affairs That was all very well, but Sputnik 1 provided the know coming of the Common Markel in common,
has trick it since drown scyen other nations Into a diferent, and rival block, and tho North German Con-
It was left to the United States Ambassador to the United No- tons, Adlai Stevenson, emerg ing from a chat with the Pro- sident. to remark: "Russia's explults in outer space command our admiration."
the American
And Russia is döldg it all with great economy of effort. Each experiment is a stepping-stone to the dext.
how for Sputnik 2 which
man in the carried the dog Laika. The
und alנו
street a good and seeing his country still playing second fiddle, especially "when you think of all the money we've spent on 11,"
. present
Rocket expert De Willy Ley says that although America is át two or three years behind Russia in rocket power, the U.S. can still beat Russia to a muan landing - perhaps in Live yours.
'This year'
Arknik spacecraft which brought le first animals safely back from orbii led to the prototype Vostok with a dummy in It.
Gagarin's
R
Present American plans are lo put à man into orbit some time. next year but Congress.
Overton Brooks, chalt- br nan man of the House, of Representá- tives Space Committee, Bald "Not good enough--we must b it till year. I don't care how."
Tie, chairman of the Senate Arm Forces Commlites, Sendiër Michaid... Russeļi, snidi **Fac thote urgency is necciskty,
operational Vostok had only to be slightly adapted to enable Titov to orbit for 435,000 miles — (lie distance to the moon and back.
xin fle prd- kraine as ofe effort. The Americaus kávé pquandered resources it compatiilan between the navý, šípy, and air force, each grasping - for control.
Russian
course originally developed chalk, rockets, fog, military purposes, It is because ther hership Bulla Fockets big enougiilo
harib tumediately atler fle think skey, have stich glikolle mašiles dow..
Colonel John Powers, omelal Mar
American
spokórinn for the men-in-space, including Chopard and seem, said: "We eat buy timo. In this race, it we aƒo willips to devole even morò money and mord talant to it?
Hork witter.
Americans whe stree Bellalja. Allkodomer that spion - þrável
bligo cli
Ind. * inlaặp of a Bailou's dober.
Americans it site bete ut unless they are reulgned to
No. 2 to anyone at anyibing. They feel that, they, Have, peen No. 2 to Russia in space for far too long. How Uteiz Mood Je! #Laj's, quit borning around.. The foon or bast.”
sit back and watch tho' moodi. „řiče “bredésig À bie - horse romp they had beller stari tekening from Rúmla's igotios.
1
BERLIN
elc
Nobody
WE STAND TODAY ON THE EDGE OF A NEW
·FRONTIER”
-MB, KENNEDY, JULY 15, 1890,
Laúdan Ezureka Zerohan,
SUCKERS
Because of this, many Euro- peans are convinced that British entry will wreck the whole thing and leave us taking the blume. For :ers people have allowed Many of them, indeed, believe themselves to be taken for Land I agree with them) that if endless rides in the arta, and Briiath had been in at the alert, culoftalımuchu, Fer yeala thay. as some people here now think hav-apparently with eagerness she should have been, the whole-been duped, often outrageously thing would never have got off | 601 re practitioners of the the ground.
giewing cult of obscurasitism,
If we had a hundred years Why? We all Tarioiv. the abcad of us we might work world is full of fools. But the through these quarrels and i publie's willingness to be taken set up some king of Európenu | lot so many such as by the system with a redtually prietical jokers of the arts hải behind It.
ma bamed.
and misbegollen plan for
People here and, in the United But the people who set up the States actually it with large political unity, which the six Governments had asked their Common Market did so beckung
sumps ef, money ri oriler to experts to prepare and which they felt, quite rightly, that we
requiso detestable daubs which hadn't me for slow progress. gave them the horrors when
They wanted they saw it. There's no reason
to fly before are, the result of riding a biatle to belleve they will like the they could crawl, and the result-back and forth over a mess of distributed nimlessly ing diversion of energies has paint next plan any better.
meant the loss of more than 10 aeron canvas, or "works of All these quarrels vrise from years, in which we could have art achieved by walking over serious conflicts of interest, in been bullding genuine walty and the canvas whlië wearing snow- which the
through existence of whole strength
Nato, the shoes, or even so-called piktures nations and the livelihood of Commonwealth, and the old painted by an apo, millions of men and women Is. O.E.E.C. p.
But perhaps, just,perhapspan. Sooner or Inter we shall have now that Zhk has reared al logo back to that road, or we ugly head and gone bolng-being If Britain went in, she would shall perish as we tear each to laughably on the Third, peat
In a dozen different chary In future about what they
are being offered. -(London Express Service).
-London Expriza Servies).
at stake.
M
lake with her, not only different ather's Kuts out and shout ple will be a little bit mora interests, leading to Bercer un quarrels, but at least three quite languages. new subjects for conflict the
Don't let high blood
pressure get you down
I HAD arranged for Mr Soper to visit the had no headaches, nose bleeds,
casualty department of a nearby hospital to blood pressure.
or any other symptoms of high Like so many
have a wart removed from his back. He left me people, his blood pressure read- unperturbed. He returned to my surgery the next check.
Ing was discovered by a routine day minus his wart but curiously disturbed.
"What's. the matter?" I nsit-
ed,
haven't got
my wort ony more," said Mr Soper, "but,..." it happens all the time. Pall-
enta leave bas-
ALL IN A DOCTOR'S DAY
by CEDRIC CARNE
no
What are the disadvantages of having this rather high blood pressure when you have symptoms and there's no other allment
present like kidney discase?" Asked Mr Soper,
Весливе
statistics tend to prove that a person with lower: blood pressure might Eve longer, some people become over-concerned about their pres sure readings.
If the quarrel between them is ever settled, it will be at the cost of internal troubles from the farmers of either France or Germany or both, and that won't make for unity eltlier. There is bitter quarrelling ton pital or consulting rooms cured, I gave you a thorough check- "But are you a man or Q
statistical about equal pay for women to yet because a doctor or a nurse up."
·I asked Mr นม which, in theory, all six have has jet allp some innocent casual Another aliment that lends to Super. For it people have just agreed. The fallans say it remsik, a huge nagging quesilon- hypertension, is called poly- a mild degree of hypertension would ruin them; Belglum, märk begins to grow in a cythaemila. In this condition and are t they should forget Holland, and Luxemburg say patient's mind.
there are too many red blood about it altogether. There are their law won't allow It the
cells in the blood stream.
no real disadvantages.
German just stay put, and all It seemed that a medical of them accuse the French of student at the hospital had made Because of this, the bland A high blood pressure in itself disobeying their ownl
law, a routine check of Mr Soper's thicker than it should be and do not ad illness, any more than, which, in theory, make equal blood pressure. It's bit the heart has to work harder to say, a pale complexion. Some
hati push the blood through the are high," that young man pay obligatory.
built one way, otilere mumbled. Nothing moto was arteries and, so the blaba bres- wiother, said.
sure is raised.
There's trouble over currency policy too. The Six bàve promised to treat their exchange rates as "a matter of common Interest," but the others new nothing about the recent Ger- man and Dutch revaluations until an hour or two before they happened.
All the same, since I have Lator, Mr Super's wart was "Anything that makes the this slight hypertension," said removed but he had a new heart work harder ifke that Mr Soper, "I'm glad I only had worry now. It was as if he had might raise the blood pressure," a wart removed, instead of gone into the Hospital with wart and come out with high blood. You have, though, a gery."
Bald. "But you haven't thiele having to undergo major sure blood pressure or hypertension thick hody." as doctors call it.
"You mean, I should lose zonie
The meaning en hypertension secondary wel dit nodded Mr Soper.
Quarrels about harmonisa- tion" of social policies and co ordination" of
commercial
policies haven't really got going yet, but they promise, well, and
sometimes to some allmeni?" Me Soper asked.
Corrected
Occasionally high blood
there's the father and mother pressure might result from some of a row dus next year about | defect of the kidneys. It con the pealikits of the forinorhappen that merely one kidney French colonies in Africa,
in thhealthy, yet that in itanít
Controlled
If Me Soper reduced, there was no doubt his blood pressure 1 supprise Mr would also become reduced, Dui · heard that burgeons "prefer to
Super
had
it was entirely up to him. He, operate when the patient's blood pressure is kept low. It the pressure in a water, main is. Torw then less water will flow from a lép. In the “sime”way # lower blood pressure means late biped- Ing from the cut arteries, and wounds the surgeon. “het to maka.
QUOTE
That's what "unly" means may cause a constant hyper-
templor.
--by Mr. Geoffrey Hood, God today. It 1 true that p nodiu
Curiously,
#discused alone (Bürrey) council salatant afont,
After the
auch worst row a far, the Six metidney often as an unfavour-origeer up a commission to propoteul effect on the healthy one.
Ago
Fortunately, nowadari, the blood pressure of patient can be controlled ariincially during an operation. by use of: na amazing drugs,
*50,"1 wald smiling.
"pays ahul means of bluing That why at operation L VANDALISM to fast becoming the unity by their peoples a sometimes performed to remove Vd tekular paalliis for some can have any operation you w ohe kidney, thed the bikeri #hungklers, Unless notion, le | alatutory character "
Thats ok, but it quickly recovers and the high taken soon un « national route Mr. Soper and the kraton won't be worried. Have you any they lodd pressure becomes correct the public bonscience will pois particular one in mind? quite" }librady, where
16. sooept the', present slate of Negotiaubon about the Com-"ut you have healthy kid. Adalen gee an inevitable, modern. mon Mathel dited and mourn 7. reminded Mr. Rober, GAY Málady. the Bix had luci reindigd a mild, "What you adto me 1911 200 k
Thank you very much,” islä Mr Soper, reaching for his ma
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