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THE CHINA MAIL,

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1961.

PETER FAIRLEY, BACK FROM WASHINGTON, REPORTS:

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OMPLETE military

stalemate now exists between West and East. No longer has Russia any chance of surviving

"hot" war.

are

America's defence chiefs today utterix ronvinced of this The West's

machine [

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they believes in a stimpe when

should ensure that the

lays for at least five years.

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Tha fumber 27 ICBM'S will be reads 19 Christaur

Two more

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And will not be long before they are joined s Titan and Minutemen markets, fiset Sa thal thy

unless the selves tonantinglls from low a hundred tons of rudible

Next serley significent

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linprovince-dak Western RADAR feit Britain can claden coun wwertes

it

These make it virtually im-

Russia to job possible for

cricket ball over her horizon without some human or elec tronic brain reporting comes a cricket ball."

"Here

Nuclear stalemate

-if the wasp stings

the wasp will die

which Last but certainly not least rockets from something mportant. has come * major MIGHT succeed into something breakthrough in ELECTRONIC

which WILL

West can The

feel again EX M COUNTER-MEASURES

confident that no matter how vicious a sting it might suffer, the wasp would certainly die. Its death would be automatic and inescapable

terally blinding youst enem with science so that he Jane or destroy you

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that aw ECM venagh has

given F-105 Thunderghiefs an

unio.chabin“ tapolation. and Caused opanions about free-fall homthing being odeiescent to be wathedrown

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Philosophy

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The new stability, it is, felt, will continue at least until a cheap anti-missile system has

en developed.

An iron Ast, however, is useless without an iron will to control

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Timr and time again during my recent talks in the Pentagon Micials repeated: "A deterrent only deters if the enemy knows you will not jib at its use. One Blemish exposes a mask.

1 sensed they felt that Britain

by Kruschev - claimed

as a "hostage" might do well to

remember this

For it is the philosophy under- ving U.S. policy over Berb.

Abhough

was made

perfectly clear America

would

to

never.

was

The Thunderchief, one

of the West's five

Russian-beaters,

upsets the best known radar and anti-aircraft missiles, then drops good-sized

A or H-bomb...

that gression of steps to be taken in West Is

onc under the event of trouble over Berlin

any circumstances start a pre- Each is carefully gauged to force emptive war and offensively "bloody the nose of that Mr Russia to go one big jump tur- K

her in- ther thus revealing for good," IE

made

tentions ar climb down. There equally clear that she will

must be no mistake. unleash the deterrent in the

In this

defence spirit, her planners have drawn

is pra

last resort.

LORD LAMBTON, MP,

For no one in the Pentagon has any illusion about a large scale conventional war The

REVISITS

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not equipped to win If all the steps have been taken the nuclear button wil hr pressed.

As one general put it Russia wants war, she is bound to set it.

We just have to be sure that's what she wants"

But BOW Russia knows i would be suicide

London Express Servicn).

MAKARIOS

AND DISCOVERS A NEW THREAT TO CYPRUS

Nicosia.

once aptly remarked, hath his revolutions. This was never more forcibly borne out to me than by my present visit to Cyprus to see Archbishop Makarios.

TIME. Chief Justice Crewe

as

If Britain fails,

the Communists are

ready to pounce

I remember so well the last time that I met him. It was in Athens in 1957. In those days he lived in a small house in the suburbs. It was sur- rounded by barbed wire and sentries and when I rang the bell a tiny

S went to See

impossible to (which is already considerable) aperture in the door!

what had previously been the imagine anyone more friendly the answer given is the pros opened and I was sized talk with the Archbishop who Governor of Cyprus's louse and then was the Archbishop perity that should result from up by a hard pair of was dressed entirely in black was in those days the residence.

the Government's development plan.

eyes.

I remember

having a

and spoke B English.

ing

been i have

of Lord Harding. I would

Malayan newsletter

By Gregory Wong

A matter of

politics

Kuala Lumpur.

nothing to

full its

i-

The reason for the sacking given by the ambassador was that the two dioplonats were the only Syrians in UAR Inissions abroad who had re- fused to resign and

return to their country after the Syrian

revolt.

pledge to raine the status of the Islanı

about religion and bring provements in the field of rural a written development."

This latest political develop- ment the country cane as no surprise as the influence of the PMIP has been ebbing al- as it rose to most as swiftly

After over two years of ineffective government in power two years ago,

the East Coast state of Trengganu the Pan- This year's local council elec- Government has tions showed to what extent the Malayan Islamic Party

rot had set in in the East Coast fallen to the Prime Minister's Alliance Party states, the party's stronghold. after wholesale defections by the Party In Trengganu, the Alliance won Negara and PMIP assemblymen to the while tr. Kelantan the Tengku's Tengku Abdul Rahman's Party.

three three

He added that they had been giver the alternative of making pledge to continue serving the UAR Foreign Service or resign but they had not done either..

There is about him

now an had

1

air of relaxation that not noticed before and he spoke perfect English, 1 asked

him the following questions:

RELATIONS

If you ask for details of these development schemes, the answers sound vague and nebulous even to someone as uncommercial as myself.

In short I wonder whether the Government is in danger of believing that you only have think of a good economic plan to receive its benefit at once. Has it taken into consi- deration the disillusioning busi- ness of turning good ideas into good money?

Are you satisfied with the to relations of Cyprus and the United Kingdom?

Em

Answer: Our relations with the United Kingdom are cellent.

Question: What are the rela- tions between Cyprus and the British bases?

1

It would be a tragedy if the Government persists

its present escapism now that they have won their freedom. Surely

Answer:

this is the time to turn from rather good. I do not think idealism to realism, from talk to that there is any dispute

over production? that.

Our relations

are

WATER MAY SOON BE SCARCER THAN

GOLD

WE'LL BE USING IT THREE

TIMES OVER BY A.D. 2000

By Richard Standish

BY the end of this century Americans may be drinking water that has already been used three times or more. And not only Americans. As populations, industries and standards of living grow,

the world is rushing headlong into a global water

shortage.

How critical is this shortage:

Speaking of the cheap de-miftion gallons a day each at sanisation of sea water,

Pre-

about a dollar a gallan. Guern- ducing 500,000 gallons daily.

sident Kennedy himself дав sey has a £257,000 plant pro- said: "The first country that is able to

do that will earn far more prestige than we lost by All this is still too expensive being second in outer Брасе." for use on the massive scale And American Vice President which will be needed, even if Johnson has declared: we find better methods of re- Lyndon

There is no newer or more ducing the pollution rivers vital frontier for any of us than (the Rhine is now useless for the one we must cross Ro a last- drinking purposes), better ways ing abundance of fresh water."

of re-using water, better ways even of creating more rainfall.

wes

Up till then, probably very lew Americans even knew there yet in 1957, a shortage. which was not a particularly dry year but is the most recent Year surveyed, about 1,000 U.S. communities containing *bvul 25,000,000 people were on short with the inhabitants rations, reluctantly agreeing not to hose their cars, All their swimming pools or water their gardens.

NOT

ECONOMICAL

The experts are attacking on four fronts.

in Gibraltar in bad times the

DISTILLATION: evaporating the water out of the salt, the people of The Rock' wait an- xiously for water to be shipped cost depending on the fuel-coal, in by tanker. In vast areas of oil, gas, atomic power-used to Australia, China, India, Russia create the heat.

and Africa, a slight diminution SOLAR DISTILLATION: in the usual' meagre rainfall basically the same, but the heat means the difference between of the sun, trapped and inten- "getting siong" and bankruptcy, sided, provides the heat source. even between life and death.

SQUANDERED

Even countries like Britain and Holland, which previously never knew what it was to be short of water, now often have of drought.

Useful in bot countries, and t has been used also for snia!! to provide .water for lifeboats and rafts.

MEMBRANE ELECTRODYA- LYSIS: a relatively complicated but promising method using electric current and thin mem- periods branes to ionise and alter the salts out of the water.. I got the distinct impression

FREEZING: the sea water is That is what is truly frighten- Now that Cyprus that the Archbishop, De Kut-

the what İs the chuk,

Turkish-Cyprioting. The dry areas of the world frozen and the (fresh) ice cry- chief difficulty of Government? leader, and the extraordinarily have had to put up with it for stals are separated from the salt

capable Mr Clerides, the Presi-hundreds. thousands of years, crystals. Reply: Water, water is the dent of the House of Repre- But now even the watery coun- problem of Cyprus.

sentatives, are all aware

of tries

are going on short com- this.

Mona

Question: is independent

I concinded by asking htm about the Communist position

here. He fold ene although MEMORIES

The two Syrians claimed that "several means of pressure" had been applied on them to make

there was a strong party within them change their attitude and

the country the

Communist express their support for ideology was basically anti- President Nasser of Egypt.

pathetic to the individual It is very fortunate that they

unly "We naturally refused to give Cypriot. Perhaps

4 per are for this Government is as Communists in favourable to this pressure," said Mr cent of

Western Mohamed Shahir Drei and Mr Cyprus were genuine card hold- Allies es any there will ever

ing members. Homaded Said Al-Sabbagh.

in

the

STRENGTH

te.

to

the

So it is necessary for us to dismiss all memories of a bit-

Does this mean that less rain is falling? The short answer No. It means that more is being used and squandered.

All these methods work; none yet is truly economical. One pos- sible way of reducing the cost may be to combine distillation of fresh water with the recovery of such valuable minerals as magnesium from the sea water. And the really ambitious hy- draulic engineer might remem- More people are being born, ber that there is about £7-8 fewer dying

so young. That million worth

in of gold means more bodies demanding every cubic mile of sea water. water. More and bigger factor- les, also 'demanding more water. But perhaps biggest drain on available suppites comes from higher standards of living.

But remember, as you run your bath, that there may come a day when some- thing more precious thon UP AND UP gold may be going down the

drain--the bath waterga

control of all four town councils,

Mr Drei was counsellor and party won control of five town Mr Sabbagh was firkt secretary councils, while the PMIP re- at the embassy until fired.

ter past and to do our best 10 tained control of one.

Their version of what had

maintain

Government. that The PMIP's broad principles happened at the embassy was

Strategically the value htt of Malaya

alaya for Malays only and that they both had requested to

Cyprus is of the very greatest to the be sent home but the ambassador Yet in a sense I am not sure importance. government according

If the Communists tenets

Today, America uses of the Koran has not tried to get them to support that the Archbishop is right, seize control here, they have huri

them in the East

Coast President Nasaer.

for a serious misunderstanding both sides of a nut-cracker 300,000 million gallons of states. What has been their

They have now approached of the purpose and strength of around both Greece and Tur- water a day. By 1980 con, greatest downfall in the states Tengku Abdul Rahman to help

Commumter seems to exist in key. Naturally they are doing sumption will have doubled in their inability to govern their

Government circles. them get back to Syria.

• everything that they can to to 600,000 million. Industry. states properly, let alone produce

win here.

needs 25 gallons to make one results for the eloctorate.

The sad thing is that they pound of paper; 65,000 gal- an unexpected lons to produce a ton of steel, bonus from England. If ve More paper. More steel. More the Holland of the East if of the Greek-Cypriot popula- but special terms there is not washing - machines. It just

doesn't rain that much, experiments to supply considerably in the last year. the alightest doubt that the piped water to hundreds

export trade of Cyprus will be That is why some of the

thay Curiously enough it now in- seriously affected. For of isolated villagers in the cludes among its members the would not be able to compete

world's finest hydraulic engin stră dre now racing to find a country by a windmill sys- residue

with Italy of the Cypriots who commercially

in method of taking the salt out of tem is a success.

desired union with Greece the selling of vegetables and rather than independence.

By fruit.

defection of With the Party Negara men and PMIP members, the, Alliance rest of the country under the central government's lead has party now has a majority of 13

been pushing speedily ahead in the assembly to the PMIP'S

with the Second Five-Year Plan. 11. Two other PMIP men are

the main alm of which is to reported to have also decided

raise the living standards of the the Prime Minister's to join

Malay peasantry. party.

Both the Party Negara and the PMIP are made up of wholly Malay politicians and their strength has been confined to the two East Coast States of Treng

Singapore had its largest ganu and Kelantan which have

Even the Sultan of the State number of strikes for the The large Malay populations.

was getting worried over the PMIP also controls

year during September the only other state to be held state of inactivity and he spoke by a party other than the Prime to Tengku Abdul Rahman dur- with 14 involving 2,809 Minister's party in the country, ing his visit to the state a few workers.

Kelantan,

Progress

The result has been that dur- ing the two-year rule of the PMIP in Trengganu, nothing has been done for the peasantry which makes up the majority population in the state.

months ago.

Reason

Progress in the Easi Court He told the Prime

Minister

machinery had

Since the begin- ning of the year there have been 61 strikes in the state, involving a total of 6,497 people.

What is the true strength of the Communist Party here?

It is difficult to assess, but it

may receive

Malaya may soon become is probably about 30 per cent jom the Common Market with-

tion. I believe it. has grown

sea-water cheaply. It can be done. A few years ago the 'cost

The Public Works Department il fortune this, new state has It would be a tragic mis- was working out to about 358 a la bullding a windmill and In- found, theretore,

thousand #gallons," #Now" (some Shat it take ff-without quite know- plants have got it down to about tends to operate it for a four-herited a ready made opposing what we were doingwe 2d thousand. But for month trial period.

tion with its independence,

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coup d'etat in cost of the windmill in from VAGUE

staton as compared with the that he was very worried as the olber states in the Federation of Government Malays has been slow, largely due to the attitude of the PMIP been inactive, The State As The recent

sembly had not met for the last

party which refuses to touch the eight months and the Executiye semi-government Social Welfare Council (state cabinet) had only Lotteries Board's money for the mat on rare occasions. Unikling of mosques, religious

An Australian Arm has offered the windmill free of charge. The.

Syrfa had its repercussions $1,200 to $1,000, a pump 1400 In Kuala Lumpur.

and a water tank 10,000.

The United Arab Republic

should push this country into domestic purposes that is m101

the Commuilst sphere.

·Such an event would com-

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almost 100 per cent too! high to

be economical and for agricul-

tural purposes more than 1,000 per capt too high.

alting plants the

pletely undermine. CENTO and the whole anti-Communies tier The Australian firm sald that Are not the Archbishop and which we have worked to est schools and other social welfare The defecting assemblymen Ambassador bere, Mr Abdel the windmills would be a boon hi Goverment besleally unish in this doener of the projects. The PMIP in Trung- said that the reasoİL, for their Mohlem Tewik, dunked

two to folated villages along the derestimating the denter Mediterranean aver since kunu, especially, has had precli- move was that the "State doy- Syrian diplomats from their post coastal areas where there was you what is being done to war ended cally", no land potior, while the ernment has done practically at the ombany,

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