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25 YEARS OF THE BRITISH LEGION

From Our London Correspondent

men are on duty, and provides basic training in seamanship to fatherless sons of ex-service men on the Stork Training Ship, which is moored in the Thames.

estabilah his own business, where he specialises in supplying complete "fish tanks" stocked with rare and exotic species.

THE story of the British Legion's twenty-five busy and useful years of existence is told most vivid- ly in the exhibition at the Central Hull,

which was opened by Maerul the Earl of Athlone

Another stand gives an During the war years, members of

Insight the other thy. Four Cabinet Minis- the Legion took the initiative in

Into the business of an ex-sailor. ters and a number of senior officers most of the major activities. The ning a detective agency. It is stated William Chesson, who is now run of the three Services, including Lt. Home Guard in its original form of Gen. Sir Oliver Leese and Major- LDV was almost entirely founded the USA, he took a course in de- that "while waiting for a ship in General R, E Urquhart, were pre-on Legion branches. The ARP Ser-tection und obtained a diploma," and sent at the opening ceremony.

vices, too, were largely organised by he demonstrated a fool-proof system Object of the exhibition is to the Legion, as was the first police of identification by finger prints and stress the significance of this great reserve. Branches of the Women's curd register, organisation, which in the last quar- Section played leading part in the ter of a century has exercised a evacuation of children and their potent Influence on the life of the accommodation in the country. nation, and to demonstrate to all

of these activities, such as Some of who served in the Armed Forces the famous poppy, factory at Rich and the Merchant Navy, the worth-mond, the work of the Preston Hall while job the Legion is doing to-day, patient settlers, and leather hand

The Legion has now more than a bags, toys and goods made by badly million members and over Beven disabled ex-service men in their thousand branches in Britain alone. Their purpose is not just to have pleasant social gatherings and bun fights.

Half a million pounds a year is spent on Service work, but this represents only a small portion of the Legion's activities. It considers it infinitely more satisfactory start a man on a career, or set him up in business with the aid of a loan and expert advice than to give him

ATOMIC VIP

by Raymond Blackburn, M.P. Ion my part and a journey whose job it was to find

T took a journey to Chicago this were confirmed by Professor Hognesz, of Chicago University, to Gottingen, in Germany, by a state of German nuclear research.

out the friend to find out the truth

As a matter of fact, Franck nud about Dr Hahn. But now I Homess .do Rot believe that know it and I can tell it to you Hahn and his friends were really try- and, I hope, to the Russians, ind hard to produce weapons at all. But they were anxious to build an who are very evidently barking atomic "pile" or furnace for the pro- up the wrong tree.

duction of atomic energy. Permis alon to use precious materials could be obtained only if a warlike object was in view.

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Otto Hahn is the German atomic scientist who firat split the utanium alom. He did so in 1938 at the Kai- ser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, and his experiment was published to the world....

It is certain that if Hitler had pre-,

DEATH DUST

O the German atomic scientists sald That atomle energy could be vented the publication of Hahn's (and generated for the purpose of produc- Strassmon's) discovery, America ing radio-active durt. could not have developed the atomie Atomic "plles" produce enormous bomb by 1945. In other words, quantities of radio-active by- Hahn indirectly saved

Turn these Into a fine dust hundreds of products. thousands of Allied Ilves.

and they could be used as a weapon almost as terrible as the atomic bomb So Hahn is n V.I.P., a Very Impor-itself. tant Personage—although he may There is no defence to radio-active not be listed ba such in "Who's dust except to evacuate the area con- Who."

taminated. It destroys all living ttungs-human beings, cats, dogs and His discovery was quickly pleked even microbes. You could breathe up by scientists in Denmark, Norway, rndle-active dust into your system France, Britain and the United for hours without realising that you States. These scientists then started were doing so. on the trail that finally led to the This is the weapon to which Pro- atomic bomb and is now leading, as fessor Jollot-Curie, the great French you know, to other developments. atomic scientist, was referring when

There are two

war night rumours about he predleted that

Le Hahn, the Brst of which the Russians going on for some time before the have now repented. The Arst people attacked even realised they rumour is that he is working in were being attacked. Britain on the production of atomic But Hahn and his friends had got bombs. This rumour is entirely un-nowhere near producing radio-

active dust bomby or rockels. Yet it is important to remember that auch weapons might well be created with the expenditure of less time,

true.

FORBIDDEN WORK

capital and labour than are required

for atomic bombs.

MY friend (who is a local leader the Labour Party and a selen-

Radio-active dust may well be one tist) recently spent an evening with of the weapons of mass destruction Hahn at Gottingen. Hahn in very which the scientists can now produce. disillusioned. He would like to have Leading, American and British scien- more work to do, but the British autists have assured me that this is so. with nuclear research on any sub- thorities will not let him go ahead stantial scale.

I asked the Prime Minister a ques- tion about Hahn some time ago and the answer made it plain thai Hahn

troi Council agreed. such research only if the Allied Con- would be permitted to proceed with

The Russtuns must surely know this

was

that

wns

JAPS' MISTAKES

STRANGELY enough, Japan was not bombs. Their able atomic scientists, working on the production of atomle

all about Hahn's discovery and con- Professors Nishina and Sagare, knew

sidered the possibility of building atomic bombs. But somewhere they made serious mistakes in their cal- culations and concluded that atomic bombs could not be made.

rumour The second Hahn's record during Fascism none too good. I went to great pains to ascertain the truth about this. Lise This information was obtained for of Miss N. M. June Whyte, of Rosario scientist who first pointed out

Meitner, the brilliant Jewish refugee America by President Compton,

in the

Massachusetts Institute of Cottage. The Tow Path, Shepperton Copenhagen the great significance of Technology, who was General Mac- too. She (Middlesex), a former Wren, is there Hahn's discovery, told me that she Arthur's adviser on the subject,

puts model atrips in had never made allegations of pro British and American and Jewish In the field of nuclear physics, which bottles, and together with carving Fascism against Hahn boxes in wood is making quite She knew nothing against him. various objects such as cigarette been printed in the American Press. scientists proved far superior to the scientists of totalitarian countries. good thing out of it.

their

had

Then in Chicago I met Dr James |They can, and will, maintain own homes and sold through the There is also A. G. Mewman of Franck, a refugee German atomic lead in this respect without enlisting agency of the Legion, are shown at Clapham, un expert engraver, and a scientist who had known Hahn for the support of German scientists. the exhibition stands.

But I see no reason why Dr Hahn unique collection of postage stamps twenty or thirty years. He told me Othery demonstrate the enterprise of all the Japanese-occupied poun

categorically

that Hahn had never and his friends should not be co- of demobilised ex-servicemen and tries liberated by the 14th Army, had, or expressed, any sympathy with women returning to civil life, or including many of the occupation work undertaken in prisoner of war issues the work of Captain Gard camps,

ner of Wimbledon, R.F.C. pilot of World War I and an Artillery Officer

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during 39-45.

W. Croxford, of

When Victor 10

Westcliffe-on-Sea, was taken prison- er at Dunkirk and found himself in Stalag VIIIB he determined to pro- vide himself with an occupation which would not only relieve his own boredom. but that of his fellow He established himself

a sum of money to tide him over a dificult "period.

Spread throughout the country prisoner reporter and printer of at

sheet which served as

are 4,000 Service committees, con- as sisting of prominent businessmen, daily news who, by reason of their calling, can and to apply their experience

lighthearted commentary on the solving the

to dally happenings of camp life, a task problems brought to them by ex-Service men and women behind barbed wire. It was only he inaintained through five years members in their districts.

interrupted when he and his com-

In addition, the Legion is consulted by Government and local authori-rades were forced to march from the Polish border to fresh camp ttes all maiters concerning the at Munich,

which Journey

On

representatives are to be found on

took 13

Altogether, the exhibition, which, also includes lm shows and con- certs, and ex-servicemen's reunions comprehensive picture of this huge in the evenings, provides a most organisation and a mamincent de monstration of human comradeship and self-help.

Fascism.

Hahn is a scientist who lives in the scientist's proverbial ivory tower. He abhors politicians and all their

works.

Even more interesting than this is the truth about the work Hahn and his friends were doing in Germany

truth

that the Germans were trying to pro- under Hitler. Thero is no whatever in the widely held view duce atomic bombs. They did not even realise that atomic bombs were possible. Dr Franck's statements on

According To Culbertson

(Copyright, 1947, by Ely Culbertson)

Very few players short of expert tract-twelve tricks would have been a laydown with diamond to-day's deal the de- break, and even without the break clarer should have fallen into one the slam should have been made.

these trick-gaining manoeuvres.

welfare of ex-service people, Legion weeks and 3 days.. In order to pre-rank can plan and execute squeeze

serve his precious manuscripts, he plays, but in all Advisory Committees dealing discarded all but the bare essentials pensions, employment and of clothing and bedding which had other questions of social service, to be carried by each man.

with

The daily diary he kept of his experiences together with extracts The Legion, too, is the largest em- and examples of the camp news- ployer of disabled men in Britain, paper, are on view at the exhibition. with its factories at Richmond, War- Meanwhile, on the other side of minster and Llanwrtyd Wells. It the world, Cpl. Charles Thrule, of Sanatoria Settlements the lat Bn. Cambridgeshire Regt, has set up near Maidstone, at Bournemouth, captured at Singapore, with the same and near Colchester for the treat-

of overcoming

tiental problem ment and complete rehabilitation of stagnation, turned his hand to paint- tuberculosis patients and eir ing. He got his paper as best he families. Preston Hall, in Kent, is a could, used his own hair for brushes, village in itself, with its own in- and mixed his colours from jungle dustries. A country home for aged, plants, bolling the coloured backs of infirm and lonely ex-servicemen has old books or getting the dye from

opened at Westgate-on-Sea, rags

Churchill Court, at The Nips confsented 80 of his Sevenoakly,

was given to the

iven to the Legion pictures, but the rest to hid. for convalescents of World War II they are now on view. Some depict as a memorial to the wartime leader- the emasculated bodies of his friends, ship of Mr. Churchill. There are and one was his idea of the baby 400 Haig Homes, dwellings for the daughter he had never seen. disabled and families of the tallen at rents they can afford, and postwar building plans are extensive.

taxi- The Legion also runs drivers' school, controls car park in 70 cities and towns in England and Wales, at which 400 disabled

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West naturally led the spade king, and after the briefest survey dummy, South pounced on the trick and started to run of high cards. The clubs were first; declarer dis- carded his card

his spades and East could

well afford to let go his spude ten. Now South shifted over to the Womand sult, and he was severely shocked when West falled to follow the second round. Suddenly, doom was in sight. The diamonds were good for only three tricks and it was all too obvious that the hearts couldn't

three produce more than tricks. Down oncl

If South And counted his tricks right at the start he would have seen that one spade, three hearts, four diamonds and four clubs were all he could even hope for. Thus, since he would. certainly have give up one (unimportant) why not concede it Exception may be taken to North's Observe what

that Jump to the slam. but the fact is would have made!

4. East would that if anyone everbid alightly. It have found it impossible to discard There is also an attractive display Was South, who might well have safely after following suit twice lo

been sallsfled to of aquariums,, shown by an

open the

auction spades, and South would have taken Service man who lost a leg at Dun- This does not mean that there was that East

ex with two instead of three no trump. the fulfilling trick in the red sult kirk, The Legion helped him to anything wrong with the final con- club.

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