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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1961.

The 50-megaton Bomb Confident-

AFTER

THE WORRY-

JUST WHAT IS

THE TRUTH

ABOUT FALL-OUT?

BY

CHAPMAN PINCHER

OTHERS need NOT worry that their children are going to be with contaminated dangerously radioactive fall-out from Russia's super-bomb tests.

Now the Russians liave exploded a really "dirty" 50-megalon" bomb there will be no hazard except as a remote possibility to babies under one year

oil

And for them the Government has worked out a system which will ensure protection from serions enanlamination.

Medical Research Council experts have just estimated that the total full out from the 22 recent Russian blasts incluating the 50-megatonnér – will be no greater than that produced by the combined U.S.. British, and Russian tests four years ago,

A 50-megaton blast has the explosive power of 5,000 raids by 1,000 wartime onhers.

Paris.

IT is, of course. in a sense tragically ap-

propriate that the most highly decorated general in the French

should

never

Army

have

fought a battle. What

kind of a man is Gen- eral Raoul Salan who commands the

now

secret army organisa- tion in Algeria?

1 can only report my first in- pression on gering him in Algiers four years a when he was C In He Jonker ke an actor playing the role of a general.

His deadpan face, glazed eyes, n fixed and crooked smile, his paller. the elegance of his cniform and the depth of his de- erations all combined to

re

carried into the stratosphere, are swept round the world by the wind, and eventually fall to earth.

NEGLIGIBLE

THE amount settling in your garden is negligible. But if cows graze on a largo pasture they muy concentrate the lodine in their milk.

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GRADUAL

GAIN the Medical Research Council experts rate the dunger as small even though a 60-niegaton bomb Is in- volved. At the peak of the previous, tests British children could have ab. sorbed 16 times more strontium 90 with- out becoming dangerously contaminated,

STRONTIUM BECAUSE THE

90 IT

A BABY DRINKING LOTS OF MILK MIGHT TAKE IN ENOUGH TO ACCUMULATES SO GRADUALLY

COULD NOT BECOME A HAZARD INJURE THE THYROID GLAND IN THE

TO FROM THE CURRENT TESTS UNTIL HAPPENS NECK WHICH

NEXT SPRING. STORE UP IODINE.

In spite of these resurrances. Mr The Medical Research Council estimates that from the Russian tests Tarold Watkinson, the Defence Minister, o far Britain's babies may be subjected was fully justified in criticising the Rus only to as much atomic radiation from sians in Parliament for restarting tests. the indine us they get from natural But he also made it clear that he be- sources such as granite rocks and rays lieves the Russians are staging them be- cause they are behind the U.S. in nuclear come in from outer space,

armaments, affecting us all continuously.

This would do no damage, but as the scientists djo

know not

the mechanism of the Soviet super-bomb they cannot forecast how much iodine

THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT which THEY CAUSED ANY INJURY.

NOT STUPID

EXPERTS warn that full-out could be super-bombs continue. Fall-out happens to be particularly rapid in the case of big bombs exploded in the northern hemisphere in the autumn.

conte dangerous if Russian tests of

Bat Mr Kruschev has already an- nounced that the series is to end now. As further reassurance there is the fact that the Russian people get more of the fall-out than anyone else.

AND DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE

LEADERS, SOVIET

AUTOCRATS THOUGH THEY ARE, ARE SO STUPID AS TO ENDANGER THE LIVES OF THEIR OWN NATION'S CHILDREN.

Nuclear bombs release particles of radionetive iodine formed from the split atoms of uranium explosive.

These are

if any--it will release.

So in planning precautions they are catering for the worst possible fall-out of radioactive indine. High-flying planes and ground stations will continually monitor the air.

T

LEAP-FROG

HIIS raises the possibility that the Americans. will stage super-bomb

tests to recover their lead and that the Russians will then do more. IN THAT CASE FALL-OUT LEVELS COULD BECOME DANGEROUS TO ALL MAN- KIND.

If the iodine level rises to danger

In the early years of the nuclear point the Government will issue dried ·

arms race, tests could be justified on milk through the Welfare Services,

on they If Mr K. explodes no more bombs defence, grounds. From now the ioline danger will rapidly disappear cannot. The U.S. can "overkill" - the

the

of radioactivity

this official term the Soviet Union five because substance quickly dies. BUT OTHER times or more with its existing stock- piles. After this series of tests the FALL-OUT WILL GO ON FOR YEARS.

of thin the most

is Russians will soon be able to do the same importan! strontium 9 which

special to the West. poses

Surely both President Kennedy and hazard because it is absorbed into the bones of growing children and remains Mr Kraschev should realise that there radioactive for years.

is no point in being able to do more.

Paris Newsletter from Sam White

So many medals,

never

a battle

hair of bafflitur imreality. As C-in-C both in Indo-China The mystery, however is how

It is only fair to say that and Algeria he became notorious

the Ume-serving general that

etters-especially women-have for munuriental operational Satan clearly was can be trans- ben: bowled over by his per- laziness and lack of aggressive- seuality with its

$4 over-tones

of subtlety and self-control,

His military career has been a bureaucratie ne, mostly to do with intelligence, and mostly to da with the Far East which has clearly marked him,

It has provided him with his two army aleknames of "The Mandarin and The Chinese General,"

the

formed into the desperado and outlaw he is today.

Sulan, accustomed to

and respect

Importance enjoyed in the Fourth Republic, his evident popularity with the was shakon and finally demented politicians in Paris all combined by de Gaulle's fibes and care-

This apparent lack of chorus- ter and Indecision combined with his snowballing decorations and

in

to make him intensely disliked fully

Corps.

the French Army Officer insults.

eniculated patronising

TAUNTS

be

For example, Salan was re- maved as Cinc In Algerlu on the promise that he would given the specially created and ill-important pest-so he was of Inspector-General of

DEPARTMENT - OF - UTTER - CONFUSION. According to many French newspapers

it

is Lord Heath who is conducting negotiations for Britain's entry into the Common Market and Mr Home who is conducting our Foreign policy.

available to him at the invalides,

This dislike til persists, to the point, where Salon's feedership of the secret army is the secret THE MYSTERY army's major welkness,

Tis inderiston became evident His last-war recurd was a non- during the May 1958 revolt when that committal one he look an he created the impression

from appointment

Vichy and he did not know which side he told

He did, however, receive yet never was going to be on but baplying the Army. French West Africa but

He returned to Paris to find a another decoration, this time joined de Gaulle until after the that whichever it was it was

going to be the wianime one, magnificent Liberation.

apartment made France's highest, the Medaille

Paris super snob Jockey Club. If matters go on at this clip by the turn of the century it may even be nd- mitting some Rothschilds.

What has happened is that the D1-year-old Duke de Doudrau- ville has decided to relinquish

has the presidency which he held for the past half century to make way for a younger man. The successor he has chusen is the 77-year-old Duke de Levis Mirepoix.

The duke, an historian is one

of the rare intellectuals of the club but he campensates for this handicap by being the president of the Association for the Ald of Distressed Nobility.

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The duire Intends to hold the post for only two years ana then in his turn make way for younger man, presumably

someone in his early seventies.

that's Kennedy's

man in Berlin

By

RENE MacCOLL

VE to fight

Berlin.

war over Berlin.

WE won't have til fremain free. That is the

opinion of the man best qualified to judge; the man in the eye of the tempest here in Berlin.

He is 64-year-old General Lucius D. Clay, President Kennedy's personal representative in Berlin, one of the shrewdest soldier-diplomats the U.S. has ever produced.

anci

Clay. dapper, impressive, quiet-mannered

totally unbellicase fellow, exudes quiet confidence.

11e does not believe Russia over intends to start a war

Berlin. But he feels strongly that Britain, France, and the their U.S. will have to keep troops in West Berli for a long time to come.

Clay, who looks far younger than his years, also thinks that

Street

paved with marble

Paris of the

ancient world

From HENRY LOWRIE New York. MARBLE-PAVED

A street where 1,500

I now propose to put a slight plastic bomb charge under the years

Militaire, usually awarded for Jockey Club. The fact is that its courage In the

face

of the future president {s ut this enery.

mument seeking to legallse his The job of Inspector-General title in France, never materinlised. Instead, be The situation is that the title was given the purely honorife of the next president of the pust of Military Governor of Jockey Club is not recognised in Parts.

France. Fis complaints met taunts from de Gaulle on

with

He belongs to a branch of the not the Levis family which was

rare occasions he could get to Senobled unú! February 8, 1928, see him.

when his ancestor was made It may be that these final in mere baron. dignilles heaped on a man who was convinced he was respon- alble for bringing de Gaulle back to power finally proved too much for his pride.

but no job and no Recess to de REVOLUTION!

Gaulle.

The ducal is a Spanish one and comes from his great- grandmother, herself a Spaniard. In Spain, ber titles can be passed on by the wife to her hushand,

The Jockey Club is therefore confronted with the embarrass- ment of having both a member

future and

president whose

T last I am happy to ille is, as yet, unrecognised in

revolution in France.

A report &

Cummings

"I don't know what effect the 50 megaton will have on the Capitalo-Fascist- Imperialist enemy, Ekatarina Alexandrovną, but, by Lenin, it frightens me !"

London Express terriċe

shoppers has

ago hunted bargains

been uncovered.

The

the only worthwhile 'guarantee of the recess routes into West Berl from West Genuny is the allied troops in Berlin, neked by a strong Nato army well provided with both nucteur and conventional weapons.

Any written guarantee which might be offered by the Rus- sians he regards as meaningless. but he views with equanimity the prospect

that Kruschev may eventually sign u separate peace treaty with East Germany and even the probable restit that the access routes would then be in the charge of the East Germans instead of the Russians.

The

Their

At the moment tenslon has lessened here in Berlin, Russians have eftained initial purpose: they have most stopped the Row 1.1 refugees to the West and have sel up a tight Police State East Germany

there has been no evidence of any dangerous renewed pressUTE.

Since that happened

Our Intelligence men put down the recent 'birkt' of thooting on the border to the poor training and nervousness of the People's Police, rather than to deliberate attempt to start big trouble.

A blow

A

General Clay thinks, I under- stand, that Belly will main- its uneasy calm, unless the East-West negotiations, new la prospect, fail.

It is in the Paris of the ancient

If that happened then mate world-Sardis, capital of Lydiaters might well become grira

Turkey, ance

once more, in Western court of the fabulous Croest, last king of Lydia.

It was disclosed recently that a joint team from Harvard and Cornell Universities digging for the fourth year also discovered a Roman bath, colourful as a) tapestry with mosaics,

Clay is no man to try ever spilled milk, but it is no secret that he regards the building by the Communisis of the wal now diving the city an heavy 1 w to allied prestige and to Le morale of West Ber- liners,

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There would seem to have 3 major failure of Western Intelligence concerning that will,

On their archaeology detective work they came

been un with the story of the interrupted meal. Says Professor George M. A Hanfmanu, of Harvard, of the Anding of cups and plates-

The meal was rudely inter- The diners abandoned rupted their placcs, never to return."

ATTACK

Why, it being asked in Berlin, dil

on the no one

discover that Western alde the Reds were getting together materiais neces- the building sary 10 rush the job through?

I understand Clay JB very pleased with the superb morale of the Western troops in Ber lin.

He suggests the interruption really was an attack made by Ionian Grecks, who fell upon In conversation with friends the Sardis in 499 B.C. and Clay hon been unstinting in his burned the city.

praise of the British and French The main shopping street had Army units ワク well as the road and pavements paved with Americans, and he calls all marble-soft, wide,

It was flanked with mosule colonnades, where people could chat in comfort out of the sun or rain,

The slafely avenue and is shops were part of a rebuilding the year project begun about A.D. 400.

Some 200 years later came disaster- Persian Invasion.

Later Byzantine engineers lovalled the columns and walls before overlaying all the debris with more modest cobblestones. Next to the aircot the Ameri cans found a Roman gymnasium bearing inscriptions indicating a bullding date of A.D. 211,

HEATED

The Roman bath with a heat- ing system that conducted hob alf under the floors was several hundred yards away,

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three contingents "As fine force as I have seen."

Since I have been back in Berlin

of my deveral

Cer- man acquaintances have com- plained that Western forces are of the walled keeping clear bortier,

They grumble, too, becauso the 1,300 additional American the troops sent to Berlin i wake of the crisla havo been kept largely out of sight.

But why, argues Cloy, should Western soldiers start parading up and down the border wail, have when the Communists only policemen on their side?

Staunch, good

All the same I And that the Western troops are more notice- able now than when 1 was last here in the aumener.

There were references in some Inscriptions 10 gold-covered You encounter patrols much roots and in the lomb of more often thers before, One Lydian woman of long ago they of Clay's earliest directives, I found a gold bend-the first gold am lofil, was that reserves romala In found dating back to the time shail henceforth of the father of Croesus, about motion rather than stelloniaty."

100 B.C.

President Kennedy may have" mado few mistakes since s entered the White House, but ho made no mistake when ho called on General Luchis Clay to retum to Berilni

But the Amerlenn diggers were beplan to it by geove robbery. The tomb had been desecrated and all the gold had gone,

NOTE: Croesun, sina bulous wealth during his reign rit Lydia from 593 to 540 m... -London Kaproza Korviče),

fa-

For Clay in a etsingh''und ́a sand man.

(London Esprees Mervinėje