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N August 6, 1945, the first atom bomb was dropped or Hiroshima. In the Ruhr that same evening I had just finished a lengthy talk with a fat, well-fed Gorman Indus- trialist, who was supposed to know the location of some docu- ments needed by Allied Intelli- gence.

Casually I mentioned the day's news. The industrialist was startled. "The Allies have the atom bomb," he exclaimed. "If it is true the war with Japan will be over in ten days." (It was over in eight). Then lean ing towards me very confiden- tially, he whispered, "You know, we Germans also had the atom bomb."

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By

MILTON

SHULMAN

WAR

who, as a Canadian Army Intelligence officer, given the job of interrogat- ing the captured German

generals,

Bluff

out to be nothing but a German version of the Alsos group set up to spy on French scientists.

MR SABENA

tells me why his airline pays

BRUSSELS.

T was a pity that n be.

By

I wildered motor-conch driver BASIL CARDEW

took 18 of us passengers from.

no air

Airways Terminal to Henth organisation. There were Row when our point of depar- craft, office, or dying network--- ture was Northolt.

and there was no top-heavy "paper" staff.

It was a pity, because British Perler decided on three types of European Airways was trans- airliner: Insisted on standardising porting me to Brussels to see the fleet. He issued an order that though the English airline the planes were to fly, not to stay in officials did not know it-how hangars. He ruthlessly held down administrativa and management: Sabena, the Belgian airline can overheads. make a profit.

And while he did this he dis- For every five officials at Northolt carded the pre-war Belgian Govern- ment subsidy, of £1,200,000 a year. and Heath Row I counted only one we have got to pay our way to face- at Brussels airport. And in Brussels the shareholders," he said. Am pay

PRIVATELY HELD DERIER explained that half

Säbena | aktores arg held by

the

I was Impressed by Sabena's Sabena does. Arrangements for streaking ย through the Customs and off the air- port in 25 minutes.

Before 45-year-old Gilbert Perlor, Sabena's managing director, had private people, a quarter by the agreed to see mo I had dug out: Belgian Government and a quarter Last available figures for one year's by the Belgian Congo colony. operations-B.Q.AC, £0,070,844 The Sabena chiefs do not work loss: B.E.A. £2,157,937 loss. (for its their flying crews harder, for the first eight months): Sabena. £700.- International Airlines Association 000 prent.

limits air-crew flying to 120 hours a

These figures showed that for month. every passenger carried B.O.A.C. But the Sabena flying personnel lost £62, B.E.A. £30, but Sabena-the men and women who do the

the work-are cleared £ a lead profit.

best paid in

real

What has Sabena got that the Europe; and the passengers are given other have not got? I asked Gilbert lunch or dinner free because it cost Perier. He is a slightly built, fair- less than 2s. 6d. a head to the air- haired, modest man, who has been line, a publicity charge considered

worth while. at the airline game since 1930,

Mr. Perier and company, refuse to have experirald.

world-wide offices.

----FOUR POINTS

"harlly

for your trading profi.

TIE problems of the others might. "But all be different, he said. But this is accounts what he told me as we sat in his How do you do it?" unpretentions office in a side street:

Brussels

Perier replied: Our 25 airliners:

been 90 have

per cent full on every irlp.. We brought the Belgian Congo Sabena is run purely as a private nearer to Europe from more than a month's travel to 23 hours by air.

"We discorded this silly talk of the fifth freedom, which is the right to pick up passengers abroad and

concern.

1

In Brussels they learned of a Ger-2 Sabena believes in carrying pas- senger only in the air not on man frm which had removed to

set them down in a foreign country. of the staff. supply Germany the entire French thorium. Since thorium Not one of the 2,282 staff has Civil We load our planes at the start, and stop on the way only to pick up could be used in the advanced 3 Service status; even the manag- petrol. We know that people go by stages of the A-bomb project the ing director can be dismissed if he air not because they like it but Implications were obvious. How is ineffelent. ever, after a few weeks of panic was learned. with relief, that German Arm had stolen the thorium, because they were plan- ning to produce, after the war, a new type of toothpaste mixed with thorium oxido,

It the

in

It was not until November 1944 documents that sotno

found

the on

atom

Dr Goudsmit, an American physicist of Dutch origin who Strasburg revealed the full extent of before the war had known the German-thinking principal German scientists, was bomb. The ungilded facts were that chosen to act as the mission's German scientists had only reached the stage the Allies were at in 1940 scientific chief.:

when no large-scale efforts to Produce an atom bomb had yet bo- gunl

Knowing that in July 1943, Enrico Fermi had in Chicago produced the first chain reaction A few weeks later the same and that by early 1944 the huge subject came up again while I and expensive Manhattan Pro- was interrogating General ject"-the code name for the Eugen Meindl, one of Germany's United States atomic research PERHAPS the most interesting part of the book is the description of leading

"The parachutists.

its how organisation was well on

len of the greatest Germans knew the secret of the way to the bomb's secret, it was physicists first heard the Hiroshima atom bomb long before the assumed that the Germans were news in their Americans," Meindl assured as far, or even further, ad- They refused to believe it: "It can't

"But we refused to use it, as we-did-not consider it-to-be-

me.

a humane weapon in warfare."

During the next few months

vanced as the Allies.

IN

I heard this story over and over N the first place it was a German scientist, Olto Hahn, who in De- again not only from German cember 1933 had made the first dis generals and civilians, but from covery of uranium assion, the basic Frenchmen, Dutchmen, Bel- process of breaking up the atomic gians and even Britons and nucleus which makes the bomb pos- sible. Another had published the Americans.

drst paper on the theory of the Gormans chain reacting pile, and like Gerlach, Heisenberg and Bothe 'were ranked among the greatest

NOW comes along a new book nuclear scientists, in the world.

lincs

German

internment camp.

be an atom bomb," said one. "It's probably propaganda."

But when it obviously was an alom bomb, their world collapsed. "At one stroke," writes Dr. Goud- smit, "all their self-confidence was and the belief in their gone scientide superiority gave way to an Intense feeling of despair and futi- lity."

own

4.

because they want to get there Air services that do not pay are quickly."

left for others.

WHAT HE WOULD DO Sabena had no special advan- «WHAT." I asked, "would you do tnge over the competing foreign

Wit you found you were running when It was restarted airlines

the war. The

whole 1030 at an £8,000,000 a year loss?" after

"Tackle the Government at once,” framework had been gutted by the

he said, "and cut out needless non- Germans.

services and ex- London back profit making

route with ono "We try a new left in

service a week. If we get 00 per cent of the plane filled we put on another aircraft? But if the fare- paying foad falls below 45 percent of the full capacity we drop the service.

Perler flow from

to Brussels and found that only orbitant overheads.

four people were

NO

{CIGARETTI

"Sorry!"

the

"We discontinued the Cairo run for this reason. And we reduced: the New York service during the

This winter to one plane a week. was done by cable, without having Ho consult the Government. We are

not

Government mesmerised by control

"I would not allow my business for a business concern it is-to-" be run on ines where the staff are 50 busy reading the memoranda, notes, and letters sent by other members of their organisation that they have no time for their real.

Job,

Now, a quick run over the comi~ parable figures

000

SABENA: Start 2,882 (including

natives): Year's passengers - 125,000 Afrcraft 25; Profit £700,000. B.O.A.C.: Staff 24,464; Year's Aircraft 175; 129,028; passengers Loss £8,070,044.

C.V.R. THOMPSON reports the U.S. Scene

after

NEW YORK. the chain of newspapers owned by propriate for individuals outside the

army to discuss this." 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.myth

to smash this latest Teutonic

Speculations along these

ALL the revolutions are: not Roy Howard. as thoroughly as if an were stimulated by the uneasy be taking place in Europe.

**We are proud that America TWENTY-FOUR HOURS atom bomb itself had been used lief that German scientific thought

Americans, familiar with wants to help Britain, and is able to explode it. For in Also9, was, after all, more advanced than by Dr Samuel Goudsmit, Sigma any other.

As a result, efforts were their own country's strongest to do so. But we don't feel a bit Books London. 15s. the in- intensified to delay German pro- traditions, are astonished by self-righteous about it. credible truth of the failure of gress in the atomic field and to dis- the speed with which American

cover what they were up to.

The first concrete action was the of the Norwegian plant -bombing

producing heavy water.

It was not until after the fall of

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German atomic research is re- vealed in all its fantastic and almost ludicrous reality.

Alsos was the code name for an American scientific mission Paris in 1944 that Alsos began to do whose task it was to follow close any serious investigation. It might be remarked that the Allies show- behind the fighting troops in ed little imagination in leaving so Europe and discover how far the important, a project so late, Germans had progressed in

The Missior's work in Paris un- their research into and pro-

suspense thriller by

duction of atomic weapons. As winds like a

Hitchcock..

thinking is changing.

CHANGE ONE: Chief Repub lican opposition to the Marshall plan is that Secretary of State Mar- shall is not committing the U. S. to military as well as economic aliances.

Yet, ever since there has been an America, an old saw, "no foreign entanglements,"

hus ruled its foreign polley.

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"To share with a people who have given so much to the world in the past eight years of herole sacrifice is a privilege."

General Douglas MacArthur de- clared himself a candidate for Pre- sident, his supporters - sot up na- tional headquarters in Chicago, Their first appointment was a trea- ! Eurer. His name,. Harold Half- penny. Sald an opponent: "No doubt their next man will be called. Twopence."--

EATS on New York's Slock Ex-

change dropped £3,250 in value

sale price, NOT ONE STUDENT in all the schools in Boston is taking vio- £10,000 is the lowest for four years,” un' lessons. It is tho war, BOYE in two days. Latest

The reason is that Wall Street is up Director of Music Daniel Tierney. against it in the midst of America's Now, he complains, the drum is the biggest business boom. There is so favourite Instrument, the bugle little trading in stocks and shares second favourite. that the brokers do not make money any more.

NEW YORK COURT gave Mrs. Sally Shannon a legal separa- GENERAL “IKE" has tentatively tin and alimony because her hus

named his war memoirs, dus in, band, a university professor, tried October, "Crusade in Europe."

to make her read Karl Marx. KENNETH ROYALL, Army Secretary, has ordered all ranks to IE BIRTH of 2,667,000 bables in

Russla stop referring to

"a1047, a record, boosted Ameri- to this cn's population, census experte potential enemy or threat

Mil

And ever since there have been Republicans, they have been the a code-name it left much to be desired since it was the Greek They were soon involved in tra- strongest supporters of that polley.

Carolo, who cing a Mademoisello translation for Groves, surname turned out to be an aged seamstress; of the Don't-lend-Britain-another-

CHANGE TWO: The switch-over of the general in complete trying to find codes in Innocent let-dollar group. charge of all U.S. army activi- ters about perfume; and finally in ties concerned with the atom tracking down to earth a mysterious Cited as an example of this bomb.

firm called Cellastle which turned change is a leading article from country," because it is "more ap- estimate,, to 148,340,000,

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