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THE Miracle of the Roses is arousing all the wrong passions.

Thousands throng to the Church of St Mary, Heaton Norris, Stockport, where a chaplet of golden roses has bloomed on the brow of An orange wood Virgin unfading since May 4.

They chant and sing and pray, believing surely that they have been granted an evidence of God's grace.

Bishop of the Diocese. Dr IL V. Marshall, says it is a lot of

fuss about nothing. What he means to say is that "n few flowers that have not faded"

make too frail a weapon in the hands of the Church to whip

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1947.

Thinking

Aloud

by PAUL HOLT

The miracle is the wonder in the mind of man and not the blooming roses at all.

A tired star ADV. Young author wanted

to

collaborate with celebrity in another art field. 4oo lazy complete novels pjone....write Box--:

Sounds like hitching your wagon to a star that's tired of twinkling.

old. 10

be- land.

with the deceased Comintern. There- fore they don't think they will join.

But if that is so, then what is the point of the Cominform? It is like putting an advertisement in the papers announcing that you intend to correspond privately with o friend.

If you think they'll try to stop you, then the gesture has no more to it than a Scarlet Pimpernel bragga- ducio. If nobody wants to alop you, then the gesture makes no sense ol all.

A vote of confidence THE film erish in selling down, in THE

formation suggests that Holly-

DAB

INFORM

AND

FLOUNDER

by Walter

MATION

INFORT

With

IS IT PEACE?

I THINK IT IS

AR is not for tomorrow.

That ix

personal my view.

For thousands of miles across

That word 'obcy' UFFRAGETTES, hoge sweet

nannies of liberty, chick and fuss because Princesą Elizabeth has may "Obey." She has to say it wood is thinking of accepting the Europe and the Middle East I Parliament refused to caise that is the law of the

pass the re- Crippa ultimatum. by which 75 per sought for reasons to hope and the Prayer-book, cant of their profits here are to viset version of

muleted. Only,

£4,000,000 in dol-found them. though private citizens may use it i

lars a year would then be in prospect They want to.

tr I should have thought, just the from our market, instead of

men £17,000,000 the parte, that I would be the

be

on sinners to repentance.

Scientists, on the other hand, with tumble over ench other. explanations which are harder to understand and more mysti- who would object to hearing his wife taught them to expect, They can't peace, but peace all the same.

miracle itself. ay

cal than

n

These learned men seemed scared by anything they cannot at once pigeon-hole

The truth lies somewhere be tween the bishop's

scort and the physicists' fear,

The miracle of the roses is a . breaking of the patter of nature, a pause in the rhythm of growth and decay. It is curiosity, & horticultural dit if you like, but insignificant.

Still there a miraris here, and it is man's continuing and everlasting capacity for won- der.

A small boy watching a chry. salis break.

that The book

must have been in Turner's eye as he ate the dawn sun come bustling around a mountain's shoulder.

The cadence in the mind of that old poet. (anon.) who wrote "The Bailey Beareth the Bell Away."

A fisherman watching pen- cils of wind across a wan Set.

CHAPMAN

It ás

Ixom war

הנחיות

1

longer we no

Ams

Reasons to hope for peace, imperfect a shaky peace, an

and

war

by ANDRE

LABARTHE

noted French scientist: who was present at the Bikini atom bomb tests

The word throws all have the dollars

Why? Because there is a to him and possess them, the responsbility

balance of forces between the daves to his wife a perpetual alful.

Instead, they can have our must

the have West and true certainly, that

Russians. An in return for letting us women spend the best years of their free

between Anglo- lave. Boking for a man worthy of theirs at 25 percent of their value. equilibrium

One by one Italian firms, are in The result of such an agreement | Saxon superiority And though they then, obidence,

Alan often find one. the applest should be that the American.

material

Russian being penetrated by the strate- dent

gical bosses will go the limit in exploiting

dollar. Facing the dol- wives are the wives who, de,

British pictures over there to their superiority in human material.

lar. Communism has made it Was Dr Higginbotham, striking progress in Italy.

<! The American president. "Atom Scientists," who bitter- ly gave me a final reason: "The average dead costs more more."

The catch in Leisure

ORD NUFFIELD)

own advantage: at the rame Continuing the flow of their pictures to British cinemas in order to keep their stars and their standards Picture-making fresh in the minds of ** air audienzevs,

has decided to e on working although her now 70 years old, and the ora Com

man

Aet due to operate soon-

survival.

of

ke him to retire unless his

Thus the consumer in both mar- shareholders expressly wish other- kote will find some benefit in the

Says her "...... work is still neve situation over the financler, wise,

Bui de hel gloat over the Shabeler the natural mission of every real

is happiest when working for that; his new role, assumed per- hardest.

haps reluctantly, shows him up s That is probably true, but 14 is not the man who is betting on Britain's man's desire.

He has spent his working life un-, der the threat of compulsory leisure (on the dole) to such a degree that now Ive

fet determined to scema leisure on his own terms and to his

en king. Just to show.

To win Jelaure

admirable genl. I wonder, when they get it. will they trouble to learn what to do

with it,

is an

That's the catch.

For Communists: THE British Communists say that THE

the new Soviet-inspired Comin- do whatever to Jorn has nothing

PINCHER

tells why the arrival recently of a 2-inch phial at a Hampstead

· laboratory means another great leap ahead in modern medicine

SMALL saloon car elimbed throwing out fragments which cells in to the top of Holly-hill, in can destroy diseased Hampstead, and pulled up the human Indy, outside a long. narrow, red- brick building. Out of the car stepped a messenger. Under his arm he carried a small, but obviously heavy, rectangular package.

He entered the building and asked by name for a doelor.

፡፡

When the two men mei few minutes later Britain's scientists officially handed over to Britain's doctors the

irst healing bullets to be forget the nation's atomic furnace.

in

THE MESSENGER came from Mr W. G. Marley, section chief at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment near Didcot, in Berkshire.

THE BUILDING is the labora- the dory headquarters of Medical Research Council at Mount Vernon in North-West London..

"THE DOCTOR wis Arthur S. McFarlane, in charge of a new branch of medical in- vestigation.

AND THE PACKAGE? This was a lend safety box con-

the find it a good risk.

Putting on weight

and

These ollfelds represent 42 per cent of the reserves of the globe,

Already the Middle East produces

heavy oll

per it will rench Almost twice

1,000,000 barrels of day. In ve years 1,500,000 per day,

Europe's consumption,

Taking advantage of the weaken- ing of the British during the WAT the Americans have their positions,

strengthened

JESTS

AND JEERS

Faith will never dle as long as coloured seed catalogues are print- cd.

Those who Insist that aviation in 100 percent sale forget the bus ride to the airport..

Women diet to retain their girlish' figures-or thele boyish husbands,

Broadway showgirl, confding to a friend:

The

rat sald he was a mil- lanaire. He was broke before I'd one through seven hundred thou,"

•

"You're like the horizon." "Why?

"You don't get any nearer."

Overheard on the ferry:

"Ele wants to ask me something.

One of their first steps was to lend I'm hoping for the best and pre- King Ibn Saud 11,000,000 dollars. | paring for the worst.”

Ibn Saud, they say, may, be the King of Mecca, but he is the slavn of Aramen,

Next to the famous names of Stan-

*

now

dard Oil, of Scany Vacuum, of the Standard Oil et California, stars artsing on this petrol firma- ment: the Arames (the Arabian American Oil Company).

When one thinks that this kingdom of huge wealth is placed nexi to Caucasus, next to Russia, one realises realises and

Its chief Toplinuti saw me. We had a long talk.

What is Togliatti doing about how vulnerable the dollar?

The death of one soldier cost. He is not an enemy of the about five shillings at the time dollar, he says, He is only, de- of Caesar, some £750 under termined to fight the "condi Napoleon, £5,000 during the tional dollar" which, according war of 1914-1918, and almost to him. threatens the political

freedom of his country." £12,000 during the last war.

Wilhelm Rorpke, who was described to me as "The Anglo JAT people are not really jolly; | Saxon's brain for Europe," one FAT

says the New York Academy off the men who are "somposed

The reason they are fat Medicine,

is that they are "emotionally afraid to know," said to me in Geneva. which is today Europe's real of something."

clinic of hope: "I do not believe in a war."

Such as people thinking you are Palstal! when you try so hard to piny Hamlet, or a Merry Wite of Windsor, when your heart is bursting with Juliet?

When a limb has been crushed in un accident the first thing a surgeon needs to know is whether the blood vessels have been so badly damaged an to prevent circulation.

If they have, omputation is usually necessary. But if there is just a fecile circulation, perhaps the small to be felt as a pure, the limb may be

ved.

I said to him: "Some Say that freedom as we speak of it today means an American domi- Hia nation of the world.** answer was: "There might be worse. The Pax Britannica and the freedom of trade dominated the nineteenth century. It was not the hard hand of

because naval conqueror, Power's predominance is easier to bear than a land Power's."

TRIESTE

a

î

The Burgeon can now get-a-certain-went-to-the nearest danger. answer within a few minutes by in-spot-Trieste. jecting a few drops of radi-úctive salt solution below the injury. As the atoms explode harmlessly in the blondł stream, they Live off rays which can be picked up by instru- ments held outside the body.

Now with the atomie furnace our selentists have ven this power to

If the doctor detects signis from phosphorus.

atoms exploding abope the crushel Lord Moran, D distinguished tissues, he knows the blood is eie- medical man, has salt of this dis- culating. enters: "142 this held of nuclear

And the surgient fight to save the physies the imagination can hardly

Hmb can begin. foliow the boundless possibilities."

In the past only a few of the ople who might have benefited by raditia treatment have done so, for radium is rare and costs £13,000 a draps. Now ridin-phosphorus and other forms of artificial redum" will pot the chance of cure within the reach of nil.

"These

Radio-isotopes used this way are eulied tracers. Like tracer bullets to machine-gunner, they allow the patha aims to be flowed.

Here two worlds of contrary clectricity rub each other.

The dollar is against him. But he is not against the dol- lar.

I was received, alone, by the Pope I remember looking into his face the while I was describing for him alom boinb explosion at Bikini.

"There are four ways of dying by the alomie bonb, Holy Father....

"Let us hope that Divine Provi- dence will spare us," he said.

"Who has the bomb" he asks. "Any great industrial Power after 1952, according to the estimates of the best experts. Thus Soviet Rus sia will have it too.""

But today the atomic bomb is still on the Anglo-Saxon side.

So this is the formula of military equilibriton of our times.

Armed masses and an infinitely small atom Immobilise each As long as that equilibrium war is hot for tomorrow.

Between

GREECE

Rome

also that it is sound to dictate! polley and commant a strategy.

A Jewish merchant was dying, and momma, his two daughters and three sons

bedside. were at the Finally momma bent over her de- sobbed; "Can parting spouse and you hear, puppa? We are all here of your daughters and sons and aki

merma, prvying for you.”

Is Milton here?" whispered the dying man,

Yes, pappa.”

"Is Moe here?"

"Yes, poppa."

"Is Abe here""

"Yes, poppo."

With a sereum of anguish poppa besat up in bed. "Then who in hell's man looking after the store?" boys Hould

THE OIL

A shelk. who has suddenly rome an enormously wealthy because some gum-chewing listerwered that vital black Just under the land where his camels used to graze, said to me:

"The French discovered the Island of Bahrein....and all they could find there were pearls.

"They brusheti The Throne of about Black Gold while dreaming those pebbles.

FAMOUS

PHILIPPINES

SHRINE

"Today one has merely to plant a pipe and pump a little and the good roll does the rest. Even the tus- sians do not possess our reserves." Filipinos in the United States "But the Russians have a second and Hawaii are being asked by Baku!" I told the sheik. He remain- Mrs Manuel Quezon, widow of ed unruffled:-

"Yes, I know Stalin said in 1936: the late Philippines President, We must create a second Baku. It to contribute to the repair of is between the Volga and the Urais. the famous church at Antipolo,

which Two of its wells produced, as early Rizal province,

tons.

oll wells there.

Was

as 1932. 4,00 tons, and in 1939 2,000,000 And, fortunately for smashed during the war, them, they are still discoverlag.new

Antipolo is the Philippines' most famous pilgrimage shrine. Its tiny Their first laku is much too vil-black image of Our Lady of Voyages nerable.

"A tomber starting from a Middle is one of the most historical articles other. East base would need just two hours in the islands. It made four round exists, to set are the

Soviet capital of trips across the Pacific Petrol. Baku is an hour and a halfcapulco galleons.

The Virgin will be brought to from Bardal, three hours and a half Manila for display on November 20 from Cairo,

"Bet," I said, "the Anglo-Ameri- 30 during the golden jubilee of the Archbishop of Manila. Mons, I can refineries are also just two hours Michael J. O'Doherty, and die con-

from Rusalan airfields.

Bahrein is

with the

secration at the Luneta waterfront

and Istanbul made a short stop in Athens.

Demetries Maximos, then Prime as vulnerable as Baku."

The

he face of the sheik wrinkled in park of the Legion of Mary. Here the spark might fly one Minister, sald in his greeting to me:

Mrs Carmen de Ongslako, widow "The American General day, causing the discharge of "The 300 million dollars of the Tru smiles

Staff of the Islands best known car, eye want is involve the the two most powerful condena Plan... Just a trifle. What we

Americans knows perfectly well that the Red and nose specialist, started the fund Army could invade the oil-fields of drive with a 1000 peso contribution, sors in the world. the Slay deeply a key position," one of Arabia whenever it decided to do with which was a letter saying that

universe and the Anglo-Saxon

one.

the

the chiefs of the Americau military so.

she prayed to the Virgin of Antipolo But the Russians know that Bakit for her husband's release from the mission in Athens told me.

"If we leave it. Gibraltar would could be Bikinised' in 48 hours, and Japanese kempeltal torture cham- Assuredly Trieste has one of lose its value, the Near East would aku means for Russia 20 million bers at Fort Santiago in Manila.. the highest voltages in

fall under Russian inlitence,, Islam tons of petrol."

One threat paralyses another world. But Trieste is being in- would be threatened, the Mediter-

threat, And pezee gains on ternationalised. It becomes an ranean lost. insulator.

"We want to protect our road of strange equilibrium. petrol...."

The possibilities of tracers are The Italians are denouncing unlimited. Take. for example, the Yugoslav militarism. They case of sugar diabetes. With rails point to the "war preparations” active sugar, scientists may be able to pin-point the real cause of this being made in Yugoslavia,

Fe-kur incurable disense,

Perhaps Se most promising feld is the use of radio-isotopes in tracing the path of virulent germs in the deepest tissuer of the body,

boundless possibilities

For external use, blotting paper taining a tiny glass phial. soalted in a solution containing Inside the phial was a speck radio-phosphorus can be applied to of radio-phosphorus-one of skin cancers. High-speed fragments a new group of chemicals from it penetrate into the top layers.

of the skin destroying the cells

which doctors hail as the which cause the disease.

was the phrase used by LORD MORAN

TURKEY

men,

Today

Turkey lint become SIDE GLANCES A prominent Serb told me: America's doorkeeper.

con- "Politically. Yugoslavia

The military power of the Turks is weak. Very wenk. They maintain siders itself the most advanced country of the East; and be an army of almost a taillion

noorly clad, poorly armed, but hope lieves that, like Soviet Russin, it that the Marshall Plan will help to might some day become the equip that army in a "modern way,'

with tanks and motorised vehicles. victim of an aggressor.

credit would The American "Therefore, all reconstruction

net of strategical highways lending modernisation of the country towards the border to counterbalance neglected by its former mas- the Russian advantage of well ex-

be

work takes a double aspected in the first place to develop a

ters and development of its naval tended railways,

Then the Americans intend to resources-not necessarily for equip and develop the Turkish ports war, but to do the maximum to of Alexandretle, of Mersin, of Alnya, make the task of an aggressor and the magnificent harbour of Mar- as hard as possible."

ITALY

These bases will be protected by powerful acro-naval bases,

Today's major weapon is the air- weapon. As a counter-poise to the In Italy the Dawn of the fussians the Anglo-Saxons still pos- Dollur is over the land.

sess the most modern aircraft in the Mediterranean, world, not to speak of their global Powers the US. wants to stand superiority on the seas.

The conclusion is

Is that the greatest

Among

a

Scientists in America have made radio-active the gerins of tuber- most far-reaching medical

culosis by feeding them with a first. That is very evident. sen and air Powers are balanced by discovery since the invention But radio-inotopes are much more

It wants to transform Italy the greatest land Power. then substitutes for radium. The solution of radio-phosphorus. Their of the microscope.

Peace is

is due to this equilibrium. treatment of growths by radlum path in the body can be followed into an aircraft-carrier and

by justruments surely as radar

The equality of forces of war gives The new group of chemicals needles is often successful, but is a

crude hit-and-miss method. The follows the path of a pinne in the relay factory.

Italy is to become a comple- quite as satisfactory an equation of called radio-isotopes. The ideal system is to attack the disease

bearing directly on the

"Where is the most sensitive point sample in the phial began by at close quarters by getting the atoms cure of this disease are expected from ment to the American indus- peace a persuasion.

in being the samo 23 the to set free thele healing fragments further research.

ainside the damaged cells. phosphorus in the head of

are

tho

sky

Facts

of rudio-

try.

of peace?" put the question Until now British doctors, with General Motors and "Kaiser- London to an expert who follows all Radio-isotopes can do this.

full knowledge of the American Frazer" are investing. The the international conferences. match-but after "ring" in

"Over there, by, the petrol point" If a patient with malignant bone results have had to stand by help-Amalgamated Clothing Workers the atomic furnace it. acquired

discase drinks a harmless solution of less for lack of the materials.

collected and lils red pencil drew a red of America have ony the first trickie Today

eircle between Caucasus and Arabia, the strange power of radium.

powerful atoms radio-phosphorus

I the Didcot plant is 500,000 dollars to re-equip the at the end of the Persian Gulf. Like all substances, radium quickly and their way to the stricken isotopes from

doctorn. For Italian clothing factorles. in the hands of the is made up of separate tiny tissue. There some of the atoms ex-

Here the oil merchants of Great a few months every grain will go Standard Oil and the Italian spheres called atoms. But plode with healing effect within the

malignant

cells,

Other forms of for research. But within a year oil company "AGIP are colla-

earth fabulou wealth there is something special "artificial radium will follow, a much bigger atomic

aborating, The Italian cinema about each atom of radium. It Radio-fodine, for instance, can cure scheduled to begin production

dad look like junk. fa a miniature bomb capable of certain types of goitre.

all the radio-lootopes Britain needa. borrows. American capital.

furnace la

went there.

Britain and the U.S. draw from the with which all the treasures of Bog-

compared

that

"My request was granted and my husband lived to see the beration," she said.-Associated Press.

By Galbraith

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