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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1961.

Kennedy must decide: Should he risk a war

A DECISION

affecting the peace of the Far East and involving the lives of many Ameri- can soldiers must be taken very soon by President Kennedy. Simply, he has to

or

in Far East?

by

JOHN ATKINSON

the

South Virinam (pop 15.000,- President Ngo Kinh Diem pam is falling far shurt of moke up his mind noi curls like ¡¡ shrinip Many of the politically-conscious anexinium unlitics) and military round the Indo-Chinese nent Vietnamese resen! the dictu effort needed to defeat the Reds. whether

not to

sola ten w00 miles

terial ruir of this 60-year-old send US troops to

Thelit

try

halt to

the creeping jungle wor in South Vietnam.

Britain has a vital interest an

President's decisin As a amber of the South-East Asia Taty Thganisation, she could called o irelp paversa pinasa : the pow

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Bever

Yes.

furtive

Rich soil

In the capital Saigon start gly beautifu) girl with spli irts billow ng over silken long Trousers promenade the spacious Exuirs ands But few people risk Rec attack by leaving the city alle dark

ard-working peasants vocal hats of jul leaves squat River marshes.

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There trac suggestion h..t Diem is personally worn though many of his officials and langers m are Indeed, he is rather high-minded He is devout Catholic.

Fl

the son of al stocral He lives simply in his yellow stucco palace in Segon. where his only appears to be chain-smoking

In theory he operates a demo-

Constitution Bul 1 ak

And elections

Plea is censored The Mekong

and grow the tive that is their

Ladies of Communist guerrilastry's chief sustenance.

splashed neress the f fizi and darted Through the

Hagen fuss.ang! grinder nic! COW BA Hest in then why doe uring South Vietnam endes the Red Mag

Aldy the Regic roje North

wher Mars waterd The Proph

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de ermated And in South

to landd the str Vicinaru 14. Mast-West mayalan which in An imuse killed every day Predeal

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persoal mbtary adviser.

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The nich, black suil coulet pin- duct INBASEN more food, and this axliste possibility fascinates the Iraders of Red China-Mau Tse-tung and Chou En-lal.

11:

They see South Vietnam

2x

+ farm colony which would help feed this's hungry milions S Mao and Chon support the wit the local Communtst shown as the Viet Cong For President Kennedy and advisers the problems to defeat that BITLY of guerrillas anal save South Vietnam with- out giving the Hed Chinese an exeter to send in their troops

den 1 President Kermed Pulches Anerkar

15

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mund whether America stand go into South Vietname fri Sight

merely continue is present can

trying to defeat

pan

R

Day Averything

arc

the

setas e military antet vetition

The stakes

alarmingly Bagh It South Vietnam tali Jin her country on South-Fast

As will believe that America rán save in from the Communist

Siam and Cambia would stop

I have the strength to Communist infiltration. The

Malaya. roud

Burma, und India would be exposed to the dange of Red expansions,

forces

are nigged

However, the opposition tre!ed bet so much against Diem as against his family One of his brothers. Ngo Dinh Can, controls a large area of Sedh Vitriert

Зани and persona!

secrei

veral police

his

Another brother. Ngu, Đinh

political Varly

runs

D0000 strong whose mam Ene- 11am !!

1 inform OF Fellow- Citizens

Archbishop

has

Her

sexual

farred

M: Wha if anything more Relive than her hisiaand. pet

preoccupation 15 neralis Shi

the legislature rough

This proditats diture

except by decree of het brother-in-law. alty,

President.

marsh-and-jungle war, the could claim that his pertalist intervention WÊN

Little lingering their

munist North Vinam

Kissing ban

Then the Chinese could go in with the excuse of protecting the borders of the North Just

thes intervened

Korva S troops neared the bnese frontier on the Yal River

the

В

makes adultery crime tel forbids kissing in the streets

Nor Nor is this ail

Church and State are one province to Diem's family Pou yet another brother, Ngo }}ình Thu

areb is the shou Diem has several toner DN:- meet to carry out reforms. The laft orasion was in November 1960 afler paratroops revolted and Surrounded his palace Bui nothing came of this

Se President Remedy wil! weigh up the chuire; to send an

Stroops and

isk counter- catervention from Red China demand an trease in South Vina's Briny ami DTM aggressive action,

Whatever Kennedy decides to do, one fart is sturkly clear

day

The creeping war is far from Over Ano Thay sperd Luf SO dangerously that

wil be forced to send in troops if South Vietnam is and tube lost to the incal forces of world Coin munism.

London Axpress Service;

Exit at

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RAST BERLIN POLICE CHECKPOINT kontrol

"Hold it, fellers, I just ran outa gas.”

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who would called

a traitor

the hate

By

DENIS PITTS

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London Koprea Štrbice,

Brain to be

"It is 11 very perimus maiter. And yet it could bu stp it the Government were ly prepared to spend £5,000,- 000 on research and beller

"

"But it will need a complete change ut altitude on the part of the authorities first "

Professor A. B Pippard. teacher of solid state phystes salaries

Havs "In t yeurs Since the war

How

many such scientists do we lose in the course of a year? The dons' estimate is about 150.

But they stress again and Englishmen again, these are the most bril-

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LAST week a tall, slim scientist.called at Cambridge.

John Truscott boarded a plane at Lon- laboratory has turned out some Against the Communists has in strength and durig for seven don Airport and flew to the United States. 40 or 50 Ph.D.

One reason why the campaign

The Rexis have been gaining

years despite the fact that

the

gane badly is that the whole of South Viebian: is not united s is spending 250 malli: betund its American-backed dollars (£90.006,000) a year an

arms and other aid for the Viet namese forces.

The nun who couldn't stop singing

By Esther Rose

Western

Truscott, a man with an 1.Q. rating of near "O this number 10 of the

ΠΟΤΕ brilliant genius, a Doctor of Philosophy, a Bachelor of have gone to work in the liant, the most needed. Science, and a Fellow of two learned scientific United States Universities the graduate officials estimate societies, left Britain to live and work in the US. There will offer

twice as much money and far better facilities."

army

that The Red guerrilla numbers about 12.000 men. In

Britem Laxpayers and addition they are said to have ratepayers have paid for him about 10 secret

modern school to help her hus- supporters to be taken through grammar every village.

school, though higher school band hrough his studies

Will Truscott ever return have through university, and throughi

Britain? "Maybe." he parts of pronged post-graduate physics The country outside the towns Fenurues at a total cost this own

So the Communists

licated into most

in varying intensity, the highest to a £15.000 being in the reebowl of the i

Mekong Delta.

Instead of probing in scattered groups of 20 or more they are reported now to be throwing in men at almost battalion strength

·500 to 600.

American military observers Say than in the pattern of Chinese Communist army opera- cns, which the guerrillas are (ollowing faithfully. the next phase 1-171 be * switch to prthodox war -- holding on 10 territory they have seized and setting ta Government of

could expect lanks, and planes from

the troops fof Smuth

JEAN REDDY, the music critics said, would liberation which

one day rival Maria Callas as a singer. But then Jean Reddy gave up the applause-filled world

China

When

of an international operatic soprano for the silence Vietnam, armed with Amers.an

of a Benedictine convent.

Now she is heading back to

the bright lights. A week ago she

set from her home Fuir-

I think people

will remember

holme-road, Burnley, Lancashire. me, I hope they will."

in a 12-year-old, £65 car to Why did Mies Reddy, now 30, start her career again in Rome, decide that life in a nun's bare-

As she packed д trunk with her music firm suitcases

cabin floored vett with three planks and and a straw palliasse for a bed with her satin was no longer for her? and brocade gowns, she talked to me of the decision sending a womun

that is

I

"In the convent I walked in my sleep. I couldn't stop sing- who a yearing. i spite of penances ago was a nun to look again for found myself singing opera as I eleaned and made fres in the priory."

fame.

She talked 100 of the past- when, two years ago, she flew regularly between Rome, Naples, back to living again.

and London to earn £2,000 a year from converts alone.

'BRAVA!'

When she collected guttering prizes like the £1,000 Kathleen Ferrier Award. When people sent flowers to her table and cried "Brava!" when she sang in Rome restaurants,

and the Colosseum.

She

she

told

all back.

up. "Now,"

She went on: "I want to get 1 know I

said "

rities, mortars. and machine guns, go in search of the jungle Reds they step warily for fear of mantap-steel barbs soaked in tetanus-producing juices and hidden in the undergrowth.

Terror

Crossbows triggered by a trip wire loose off arrows loaded with a poison that kilis slowly and painfully over days

The effect of these weapons on the inorale of the Govern- ment troops has been de- vastating.

Now

Loss

has

Kccepted 11 aching ps! at a waiversity nn America's West Coast. His wife and two children will join him there next year,

For John Truscell it is the

life in beginning of a new

Cell-endowed university.

in splendid aching physics laboratories overflowing With research facilities.

For Britain, the loss of A brilliant brain.

John Truscott represents problem which is

rich,

ام القالة

to

-} Professor Pippard said: am not

when 1 exaggerating

could mean the say that this death of English Physics.

A spokesman at the offices of the Minister for Selence I think this has been

Bald:

exag-

+

"Remember that our research and scientific achievement have always been dominated by the time-man-band' type of scientist. They won't find much of that in the States."

the

But he did not answer one problem which overridus even money (the £1,500-a-year scientist in Britain can earn up to £5,000 a year doing. the same work in the United States):

iy, facilities.

A pity

Britain

Brotas has all the needed to get us well into the Space Age and a scientific herit- age which could let us leapfrog even over The Russians and Americans in the space race.

What a pity that while we Government with

to imagination enough

gel us into this race, so many good brains are going abroad.

gerated. For many of these wait for a men go away for five years or

the so and come back with all

which training and experience is invaluable to them."

-(London Express Service).

Australian newsletter

The Governor General, Lord De L'Isle officially opened the CSIRO's new £800,000 radiotele- scope this week in a rural setting on a plain in the Goobang Valley about 12 miles from Parkes, New South Wales.

Although not quite as large as the Jcdrell Bank telescope

Golf D. and H. O. Wills causing con- which has a diameter of 250 siderable concern 10 Britain's feet compared

Tournament at the Lakes to the Patkes leading scientific thinkers,

telescope of 210 feet, it is more golf course. Eric Cremmin, Του

100 any young scientists powerful and accurate than the New South Wales, 22 years are leaving this country and

one in England. Jure of accepung the

highly paid posts in America.

Truscoli, who is 31, said

older than Player, finish-

in diameter and 42 11 ed second, three strokes be-

The reinforced concrete tower is 39

as

he packed "Please don't make high with foundations reaching hind, and Australian profes-

me out to be a kind of traitor.

C

far down into the earth. It will cools Peter Thomson, Vic-

be able 10 "see" 10 times forio, and Bruce Crampton,

a stroke away.

"It isn't just a question

space than

the NSW, were equal third with Nor is it simply muney.

the further into

world's largest opiical telescope attraction of a new car and a

B: Mt Palomar in California. house in Californie.

The site is ideal, it is quiet, sheltered from the wind and with freedom from electrical interference.

'Maybe

"No, it is really the free-

To counteract this creeping dom to buy the sort of equip-

Gary Player, South African

To quote Gary Player's own words "that wonderful 20-foot putt on the 17th in the final Tond of the Wills Golf Classic did I."

His final round of 69 on the

last afternoon was very pleasing

terror America has armed ment that our own universities golfer, won the £3,000 W. to him following a disappoint-

would never come back. South Vietnam's 170,000 troups

have been starved or, the free-

Because of that I took more and drilled them in battle dem to do the kind of research courage lo come out than it strategy and commando tacties. which I want to do unhampered needed to enter the convent. But sume American officers by shortage of equipment.

"The truth is it took more attached to the training missions Truscott's wife, Mary, has courage than I ever knew.” are convinced that South Viet-had to teach in a secondary

NEW CHANCE

With Miss Reddy on the 1,400- mile

road to Rome

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And when she had a luxury 40-year-old Miss Rosamond flat with a view of St. Peter's Lane, who until a few weeks UNDREDS of fish nearly stopped production in a steel works

ngo was a prioress in the silent at Corby, Northants, last week. Liv it ail

When machinery had to order of the Tyburn murs. She "I want to win t

spent 18

18 years of her life with blocking the feed pipes. They had swim along three miles of slow down through lack of water for cooling, the fish were found

"I must find a flat" are and while colt and a black vell. a shaven head hidden by

pipes from-a-trout redervolt. Many workers took home fresh "because I've nowhere to live

She too said: "I want to vetroul for ten,

world again. I look

I

Iu Rom now.

must in the practise and study and made forward to the life and living contacts and Mart

singing it." egain.

The two fattet hung looked FunLDREN learn faster if they are banished for making mis- ***T even take a Job until I down at the map, at the wind-

takes than if they are rewarded for doing well, report abian- can sing again.

ing road to Rome.

tints who tested schioblohildren on an automate machine, A

I know that fighting back And Joan Reddy, operatio Some were rewarded with a sweet, when they operated the will be even harder than it was star reborn, sald Everyone correct controls thereof melling when they made a mulské to get to the top in the begin- deserves ancond chance, don' others the punched by the bias or an uaitované, nhuen

the

the world they? This is shine, ind i fintist that the talking he wrong ontrole. They got

At will be tough the world take fur

of midle la tough." "why-way "bul

deckundok tepruak muettes).

Gifts for the royal baby

Last week a story was published in the local papers în which Major John Griffin, the Clarence House Press Secretary said that no typically Aus- tralian gifts had been received for Princess ́ Mar- garet's baby, most are knitted bootoes, shawls, or mittent.

Members of the Australian Toy industry then decided 16 Tend ☎ toy kangaroo, and so at the St Peter's factorý of the world's biggest toy koala boar and kangaroo 'iilikuta, a rare blue kangaroo skin —from Western Queensland was made into a toy kàn- yüroo with a joay ta ite pouch and à music box în side which plays Wälizing Matilda,⠀⠀

en Thron rop kanla beans were also made and sent with the kangaroo la Londón, by dir this week öfter speciál VIP, treatment from the workers ot the far- tory, who, when thấy khaw where the toys were going, Unoured that ipectul edre was given right through thứ making until they were packed - for the long trip to London.

By EMH

The new £800,000 radiotelescope in the Goobang Valley

of New South Wales...... ing 71 in the morning, though TV and newspaper photo graphers had worried him a lot. The tournament, and his visit here for the sixth time has been an eye-opener to him, and he said the standard of golf among some of the young professionals in Australia is the highest he has seen.

Later, he served with the AIF at Gallipoli where he was wounded, and ägäin în, France where be gained the rank of Captain.

Miss Tanja Verstáki Miss New South Wales, "was' choseL-MIND Australia last week from among Australia's oldest yo win sovun fallats from all states in ner Mr James Rogers died Australia. She will be given a this week in Concord Re- wardrobe, and a trip round the patriation Hospital. He would world.

have been 88 on December 3.

Miss Verstal was born Bir Rogers won the VC in Tientsin, and arrived with her 1001 at Thaba Nobu in the parents in Australie. Orange Free State during the years and. Boer War where he rode

through hoavý, five to faldne a

lieutenant whose horse had

been hit, tha Yeturned 1wkes Last modifi

who were healer on the

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