1948-01-17 — Page 6

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1948.

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Atom Bomb Declared Beyond Soviet Reach

By JOSEPH J. BAICICH

ROFESSOR Giovanni Giorgi, machines and Instruments of dim- of Italy's foremost cult and complex structure which

could not be imitated without

physicists, contends that the long preparatory period. atomic bomb is not a "scientific"

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Giorg emphasised that certain but a technical secret and that principal operations which permit the Soviet Union cannot pro. the passage from common uranium duce it "within foreseeable to explosive metals require "nction on each individual: atom to detach time."

and assemble one by one.” Ife anid Giorgi, 76, returned recently that to form one milligram of the to Italy from a government product it necessary to gather so migaion to the United States to many atoms as are expressed by a Investigate modern methods of number formed by a digit followed

by 21 zeros. the telephone industry. He said Otherwise expressed, ho the United States is the only country which succeeded in producing "not one but many Ao-called, atomic bomba" and that it is now applying radar's "electric eye" to it.

CX-

plained, we worked gathering 150,000 atoms per second and con- klinued

Faid that to collect the few lens of

an

ximately the age of our planet-we for two billion years-appru- would succeed in putting together a mi

milligram of the product." He Glorgi pointed out in an kilograma necessary to make

atom bomb would requiro a period interview that he had written in his book. "The Smashing of equal to the calculated past time of the Atom." that the "secret of the technique" of the atom Giorgi sald, "has succeeded in com- bomb is protected by a "thou- bining so many efforts to obtain sand executive details, every

one but many of the so-called one of which....is known to a different person."

REASONS LISTED

He listed three other reasons for the "secret":

1,

sun, if undertaken Individually. yet the United Staics,'

the, And

Isot

atom bombs, which now are stored

ray and held ready."

away

Giorgi, who has contacts

with

many American scientists,' said that the Soviet Union could not produce anything similar for a long time

to come.

The necessity of having PROBLEMS COMPLEX simultaneously a large number "I am convinced," he said, "that of scientific laboratories direct. It is not impossible for another ed by men who have devoted nation even well endowed-like the their lives to the study of Soviet Union, which has absorbed a great part of Germany to succeed nuclear physics.

nuclear producing the terrible

but not from one year to explosives, the next. It would require an im- mense amount of effort and a period

2. "The necessity of providing mighty industrial plants, the per

of which is trained by de- voting all their lives in acquiring skill

in certain special operations.

sonnel

..

tem

The

of handing electrical

after him.

in

* DET IDEATIONAL COLLABORATION

NO

UNAVOIDABLE DETOUR

*Copricht in All Countress

WATCH FAYID!

CAIRO. 80-mile-long stretch of "mili- IELD-MARSHAL

called the LORD tary installations" MONTGOMERY, on his Suez Canal Zone, which we, his with the help of German pri- from

Honers, have built up along the west side of the Suez Canal and Great Bitter Lake.

way

home

of time which it is impossible to strategic Burvey of Africa,

foresee.

of enormous difficulty Glorgi said he believed that future spent a week in Egypt. But he co-ordinating

and integrating the A-bombs will not be employed "did not spend it

among the work of

persons 50 many

end so simply" as before, because "in a many specialised technical plants.

future war, the systematic use of sparkling gaieties and the New Glorg is the author of

aya new explosives would be tied up Look elegance of neon-lighted of the

units with the famed electric eye, an in- Cairo. adopted tegral part of radar, in the pro- Georg duction of which other groups of Ische Messe System). He said that factories and industries of extraor to obtain

any of the "terrible i dinary complexity and importance dreary place called Fayid, de-

and utilise then are engaged. clear explosiver"

Soviels sect city of canvas tents, cor- that the

named

throughout the world

10

anu

Dak

ist putting together the A-bomb, it Ho Implied

inents

Hc

He spent all his

time in a

After days and nights taken up in meetings and confor. ences with General

Crocker and his staff, as well as air and naval experts, Montgomery's staff 'were all uretty well exhausted.

But Montgomery

at last flew off with his head and his de- patch case full of new data for one of

EGYPT

(where Monty's just been)

FAVID

CADO

SUET

SUEZ CANAL

Gabitur Lake

In and Out Of Parliament

By Ernest Thurtle, M.P.

T was certainly humiliating for the Primo Minister and Sir Stafford Cripps to have large numbers of their supporters reject their advice in the unfortunate discussion and vote on the allowances to the newly wedded royal couple. And it is not difficult to imagine the acuto embarrassment the affair caused the two, royal personages concerned.

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HONEST conviction that in these days of austerity the scale of royal ceremonial and maintenance should be reduced is entitled to bo heard, and to be weighed against the obvious popular delight in the pomp and circumstance of royalty,

An exposition of this point of view by an agreed spokesman, coupled with an appeal that in due time the whole question should be review. ed, would surely have met the case without a division,

Labour's leaders would thus have been spared the humiliation of having to depend upon Opposition votes to avoid defeat.

Also, the young royal couple would have been spared the ordeal of having their particular needs used as a peg for a discussion of what, In effect, is a much broader general issue.

E three weeks' wrangling of the obtain the good will and co-Four-Power Conference ended us Russlan wlth, bnseless operation of Moslem peoples it began,

charges against the motives and and Governments in a joint good faith of the Western Powers. defence of our common interest in the maintenance of peace, order, and prosperity in the Middle East.

What now? Well, at least we are back to the reallly that at present an unbridgeable gulf exists between Russian and Western ideas of how war-shattered Central Europe should be treated.

This

his is the one firm fact which has emerged from the long series

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I ara convinced it is (C) we must plump for. But it is a laboritve conferences, and it is upon policy which I believe is going this fact that the Western Powers to be far from easy to imple. must now proceed to build.

precious time has been lost, get here to Mnd there is now an imperative Western Powers obligation on the

their

ment.

It is when we Egypt, to Fayid and the Canal Zone, that things get tricky. There is no question in my mind that Fayld is an ideal and indispensable base for Middle East operations.

for quick constructive action in

zones.

This is the one firm fact which has

failure to get agreement with Russia, but we have every right to expect them now to agree promptly among themselves.

WAR, now and against WIAR, now open and unconcealed,

is necessary to obtain uranium and could not possibly match the U.S. rugated iron huts, and streets graphite and many other products in thi

In this field 'elther because the lined with barbed wire, inhabit- which are absolutely pure and

radar instru- production of these

stons ed not by Egyptians, but by specially treated.

dimensions of miniature MANY EXPERTS NEEDED Involving generators of millimetric thousands and thousands of ΤΟ **purify" any one of those radio waves" will take a long time British soldiers and thousands products. he sald, such colossal even for the U.S. to perfect.

the and thousands of German pri Fid another

would see industrial plants as the U. S. Du

of new

unpredictable Pont Company had to contribute emergence

that whoever hpa their skill. He added that in such weapons and

plants, important

11 "legion

of them would not announce them to

for all Middle East operations. It is against the Government Fayid is the headquarters of policy and planning NEWS MAP chemists, physicists and techni the world and "no attention should the British Army's Middle East battles of his career

anything announced have devoted their lives to be paid to clans" mastering their specialty and have publicly."-Unlied Press.

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So

you

WRI

pesoners..

Command and the centre of a

can split

CHAPMAN

: so)

hairs (PINCHER SANS 50)

says so

-ONTINUING our study of what you see in a mirror, we

the most important

Sefton Delmer's

Fayld has access to Egypt's ample unskilled skilled and Supplies of

the coni- magnificent labour. It has munications by road, rail, water, Labour Government by the Com- and air, unequalled anywhere in the munists.

Mr Polliit makes this clear in his Middle East. For the same reasons latest declaration of polley, wherein it makes a magnificent headquarters he calls upon his troops to battle and its

The Arab States jealously Cyrenaica, as

Presumably the call to arms is not 'the British Cabinet, assisted by the Chiefs of Staff and Foreign resent any encroachment on The expense of installing there the intended only for those who openly and wear the hammer and sickle, but is Office political experts, will get their newly recovered Hover- necessary port facilities, road

to assist the totalitarians while down to the problem of fighting

Importing and accommodating man wearing another badge. out what is to be Britain's new eignty and independence, such rall connections, water supply and also addressed to those who prefer

a base comparable to policy in the Middle East and as, to their view, the presence power for what, among other things, is to of a garrison guarding a supply Fayid is unthinkable. be the future of Fayid and the dump.

For early in 1948

One hair will support a weight Canal Zone. of four ounces. So four hairs will hold a pound, and 8,960 a ton, By this reckoning Veronica Lake's hair

has never

Area

no good trying to transter, Fayid to leaders.

has been suggested.

hook or by crook has always By been the Communist way, and the worst feature of the new line is that The Sudan is equally unsuitable it is evidently. aimed at sabotaging owing to lack of communications the Government's drive for Indus-

trial recovery,

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There has to be a review and 5 UNO's decision approving and man-power.

the establishment of an in- No. there is really no alternative to

enter- would hold 120 ive elephants revision of our policy in the dependent Jewish State, if in Fayld, both as a base and as a head-A GOOD mixer, and an

taining talker, outspoken and is that the

unconventional, the new Earl Bald- man publicity now come to hair, People who know all about hair are--weighing 8 tons each, a fact her Middle East, that vast

made stretching from Persin's from plemented, may not only start 4 quarters. Trouble

far have been resolutely win will be missed by the House of Jews and Egyptions called trichologists, and with the co-operation of Mr Chap. known.

You can understand now why tier with the Soviet Union in savage war between man Pincher I propose to event you with some interesting

people at one time used hair for the east to the Libya-Tunis Arab guerillas, but also between opposed to everything but complete trichological data. They might come in handy sometime.

making ropes. If ever you are mak-frontier in the west, the Medi- the Arab guerillas and any ing a rope of someone's hair use

the Black Sea UNO forces which may be sent. brown if you can get it, because that terranean, and

Blonde is the next in the north to the Indian Ocean to enforce partition. best and red the worst.

and the Sudan-Kenyn frontier

In the first place, how many hairs do you have in your head? counted them? You've never

Nor have I. but it doesn't matter. because an American has invented a machine for doing it.

According to his apparatus the average head of hair varies from 100.000 hairs to 250.000, according to texture.

These figures are much higher than those obtained by the old-fashioned method of counting by hund. Two German professors at Munich, who spent their time counting the hairs on the heads of their students, couldn't make it more than 50,000.

Veronica Lake's publicity agent says she has 180,000, but he does not say how he arrived at that figure, an it has little scientific value for serious students of trichology.

Baby food

BERNARD WICKSTEED

is the strongest.

You can split hairs

hairs it you want

to. There is not much noint in it, in the south,

but try it if

you like. Black hairs

split better than blonde.

The properties of different colour-

ed hair were investigated recently by a scienist in the fire-resistance section of the U.S.

Bureau of Standards.

Changed scene

For the

security of the Government Middle East and its friendliness

to the British continue to be of

He found that although red hair wasn't so good for ropes it resisted vital importance to the whole heat better than other kinds. Blonde British Commonwealth.

hair showed the least resistance.

I am sure there is a very impor- tant lesson to be learned from these

(Arab League leaders I have spoken to here in Cairo all in- sist on this.)

evacuation of Egypt..

Warning

WITHOUT Egyptian good will it is

6 Communist agitation based we are not free"

un

with He was popular

his col- Commons. leagues and with all parties.

An effective speaker on the plat- form, he spoke but seldom in the Commons,

the

One of his best speeches Was useless having a base here. made years ago, when he seconded motion of mine for the abolition "We

forgotten," have not

of the Army death penalty. to me, "how Egyptian friend said

I recull that he markedl you were prepared to blow up nil dams, bridges, railroads, and power triumph we shared on that occasion stations when you were preparing toby presenting me with a book.

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★ This will inflame Arab feeling leave Egypt. You were fighting your war. O.K., but it was not our war.

late constituency, against all foreigners.

Can't you sco it is all the same to us DAISLEY,, his which foreign Power occuples us it has a large preponderance

women voters.

It is said that the secret of elec- carried back toral success there is to and favour Undoubtedly Monty on Beirut, the Lebanon

a bagful of headaches in that des- with the thousands of mil girls.

The

debonair bachelor Ollver being the only Middle East patch case of his. The sooner the

Chiefs of Staff and the Cabinet get Baldwin (Viscount Corvedule) was the Com-

down to worrying over them the a formidable competitor for such

favour. munist Party may exist legally, better. is making good headway among Egypt's Industrial workers, Jandless peasants, and dock workers. It may spread.

The conditions, however, I asked Mr Pincher next if there discoveries, but I can't think what which enabled us in the past to were people in could make their hair stand up at

The scientists

have been less safeguard our oil and communi- will. He said: "No. Cold, fear, and successful in their attempts to ex- cations interests here have al-

It seems tered substantially. electricity are the only things that plain why men go bald.

to have something to do with the will make it do that."

a hair habits of civilisation, because pri

country in which the worlu who it for the moment.

fionseflesh, which, is the result of

hats

The muscle that makes

live, open-air We no longer have India or

1 stand on end does not come under mitive people who

But the Indian Army. Instead, the control of the will. It is called lives seldom suffer from it.

they know for the pilomotor muscle, and it can be that's about all

we have two Dominions which, We are no longer without jerked into action by an electrical certain.

the non-Moalem allies in shock.

caused if not actually at war with each One theory is that it is

In place of the BLONDES (natural) generally RV cald or the creeps, is caused by your by wearing hats that restrict the other, will certainly not be able Middle East.

circulation of the blood in the scale to play the role which Indin French, who used to intrige more fairs than brunettes, and

pilomotor muscles contracting. brunettes 'more than redheads.

You may have noticed that cats Yet women wear the oddest

played here in the past with against us the Americans have entered on the scene economica- Hair grows at the rate of about have hoir which stands up in the without going bald,

Julius Caesar was riently un bald soldiers and supplies. half an inch a month, or Gins, a year; cold. It makes them look fatter

ly (in Arabia, acquisition of oil. and contains a chemical useful for when they are out on a frosty night: an eas and all he wore was

interests) and strategically, as.. saving the lives of starving people than when they're in front of a tire: loose-atting creation of laurel leaves, and tiny babies.

anti-Communist Greece and

nti-Communist Turkey.

It

the standing hair traps a layer

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2. We have abdicated our pre- is proved by their backing of

I called cysteine and looks like cause that helps the, eat to keep likely to go. bald than those with and command in this part of the

powdered chalk. The

people in

of

The root of each

Belsen and other concentration warm.

Camps

It when first were given

This serves a useful purpose be- Tight scalps

vious freedom to dispose MEN with loose scalps are less

Put both hands on world in favour of UNO, an hair is set in tight ones liberated, and babies born too early, your head at an angle. That is why your head and see if you can move international body whose deci-

I you can't it needs ions we cannot safely predict.< to take ether fond have been kept it tends to lie fiat (I must be an ex- it about. alive by it.

roption because mine sticks up loosening up with massage.

The Red Indians were very fond The chemists who make cystalɲ whatever I do).

of loosening scalps-hoth theirs and 3 The tempo of modern war- Shape varios ather people's and their hair

fare has speeded up to such NTHROPOLOGISTS sometimes sometimes nine feet long.

Just Intely a doctor in a London an extent that in future wo look

get their raw simplies from barbare

shops so every time you have yours

borly's Ufr-inday's hrony thought,

was

hair cut vou may be saving some A classify the human race by the ital has found a way of curing shall not be able to afford a

Don't think from this that you shape of their hairs. If you

མ་.

radioactive

What now? CAN one predlet what polley the British are likely to evolve? I think 80,

We can elther (Ã) get out of East altogther,

can take a pair of sclzanre and cut through a microscope at a strand one form of baldness with atomic long period of losing battles the Middle

He uses yourself A men whenever you from the head of a Negro, you will cherry, are unery, Hair on its own is quite find it is elliptical--almost flat like chemical called thoriu X and while we slowly deploy our abandoning a vital communica Inlet and has to be pro- a ribbon. Chinese and Ited Indians smears it on bald heads with a var- forces. censed Hafore It is it for human have round hairs and most Euro- nish. consumption.

tay hinda

of ray

liken sho

pénny have óval.

Now then, if you are crossing the "R"

The

rays given off by the thorium atoms make the hair grow...

Roshawie ant hair and dienst it

of an old fly taking his grand-

tions area and vital oil re- ¡sources; or (B) we can try to impose our interests by force on a hostile Arab population, a proceeding which, even with American help, would prove exponsive In both money and Nationalist feeling of the man-power, as I believe - the Arab populations in this Palestine Jews are going to find aroa is at its most sensitive. out; or (C) try our hardest to

Prepared bases are militarily A

of which reminds me of the more than ever necessary today, mouse hair usually and if they hair's breath, how close to you was children for a walk on a ware starving the rubs of fhd 117 AKswer: 1-400th of an inch. clothes math wouldn't be above It. But these much prefer wool. an hairs are tough and have about half he said, as he gazed at the great

"I can expanse,

remember the there's little need to put moth balls the tensile or stretching strength of time when there was nothing here

ordinary steel,. In your hair at night.

but a footpath in the woods,"

In spite of their lock of breadth man's head. "You know, my dear, Arid this at a tind when............

DAVID LANGDON CARTOON

12.

CITY REBUILDING EXHIBITION

"Mansion House, mate? Well, it was just across there when / come on duty this morning **