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WILL YOU KINDLY TAKE YOUR SHADOW OFF ME?

Copyright in All Countriest

War Office shows

me round new School Secrets

for

by CHAPMAN PINCHER

a new defence Gradually, the Government's plan to build up force, equipped with the latest weapons of the Atomic Age, is taking shape. This month, for the first time, the War Office lifted the edge of the security veil to show one aspect of the plan in action. The aim is to train 200 technical staff officers every two years.*

TEAR the village of Shrivenham, just west of the Berkshire Downs, the British Army has quietly set up a huge new establish- ment of

im- the greatest portance to national and im- perial defence.

First of its kind in the world, it is a Milltary College of Science where soldier-scentists are being trained in hundreds to staff the highly technical units that will make up Britain's main defence force for the Atomic Age.

In an unrestricted tour of the laboratorics

the I HILW -scientists-in-uniform at work.

onc

Was

At one end of the physics laboratory

group operating a radio device to con- trol the flight vanes of a V2 rocket set up at the other end. Another was using an elec- tronic "brain" to measure the efficiency of a fast-moving gun- mounting. A third was solving problems of shell-flight on a AT 2.30, 5.20, robot calculating machine.

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Some will be attached to field

to commanders

solve technical problems on the spot. Others working closely with back-room researchers will en- sure that full use is made of the country's unequalled scientific talent.

A further 200 officers chosen from

Sandhurst promising cadets will be trained for B.Sc. degrees to swell the pool of

German engine from a captured tank. Calculating machines have been build from Meccune parts.

THE

GREATEST DAY

IN HIS LIFE

NOURTH Avenue in Brooklyn,

Fo

lined with crowded tene ments and garlah, neon-lighted taverna, long on traffic noise but

mite Dy g FREDERICK COOK

desperately short оп scenic The photographers popped thole charm, in precisely the sort of last flashbulb. The reporters asked street the late Mr Runyon their last question. The crowd would have loved. It teoma began to melt away. De Valera stood

And Paddy Maguire with life. It quarrels and makes up to go.

stepped love in a dozen different langu- forward, uges,

"Misther Dee Valera, Day," he

Even New York's Indestructible, began. "Surely ye'll not be afther

prefer well-armed policemen

to forgettin' me, Paddy Maguire. Wo visit it in pairs, expedally after dark sailed together once, twenty-ning It is not a street normally touched years ago it was. On the old Lapland. have forgotten the old

Mr. do Valorn looked at him

by the forward march of history, to Ye won't uny notlecable extent. And it is as Lapland now, Dov, will yo?"- far removed from Park Avenue's glittering, overdressed Watdort with a kindly smile. But he is Astoria

the Stockwell-road is normally a truthful from Berkeley-square.

opened his mouth-

RS

man Ho

And yet, in a way that will not "Wo was always afraid the Roon be forgotten by one man at British would be nither findin' ye,” least, they came together the other Mr Maguire went on, words coming night-Fourth Avenue In Brooklyn to him in a rush now, as he and and the Waldorf Astoria on Park Dev stood face to face again. Avenue. Just for a moment.

☆

Twas meself that helped yo stow away that day, after ye'd escaped from the British back in 1910.

Whe

or

There lives in Fourth Avenue a "Ye hid in the hold down in the stacky, poorly-dressed Irishman who dark and mighty cold it must have shaves once a week and seldom been for ye down there, and the rats wears a tle, and whom I shall call ate all the food we brought ye and

there Paddy Maguire.

always the chance ye'd For 40 years Mr. Maguire has been couch knreze and them British

in Fourth soldiers that was goin' 21 man of consequence Avenue, for he has concerned biinselt Halifax walkin' right past yea with matters of State. Isn't it be hundred times a day and you just himself that once knew de Valero, covered up with a bit of a coat and the New York Irish boy who got to able at night when we passed only to stand up and take a bit

be President or Prime Minister or

· out

to

something of the sort back in the the word down to ye. Old Country, and who now, after all "Dev. me boy, you won't be its work, has got thrown out of his forgettin' that trip, now will yo?" lob, just the same as Mr. Churchill Mr Maguire's eyes shone with was thrown out of his, the poor old excitement. man?

On hot summer nights, perched on the doorstep outside his house, and on cold ones atop a bar stool neighbouring hostelry, Mr. Maguire has been ready at any time

Mr. de Valera began to shake his head slowly. He opened his mouth again. It was clear that he was wrestling with the truth. Mr. Maguire looked at him, unbelieving.

His fate fell,

>

theso many years past to tell all over again the story of how he and tie Valera crossed the Atlantic And then de Valera smiled, a together, allies in Ireland's fight worm. generous Irish smile. Ho against the wicked English. He has took Paddy's hand in his and shook told the tale thousand times.

it firmly.

17

Mr. do

The other day, when he read that "Sure I'm rememberin' ye, Paddy

Volern Mr. de

Wis coming to Maguire," ho sald. "Twenty-nino America again and would indeed be years ago, Is it now? Who'd be

- staying over in New York for a few thinking that?" The last of the days, Paddy took it In his stride, newspapermen noted that the brogue- "He'll be wantin' to see me again, was much thicker now than it had of course," he told the neighbours. been when he was talking to them.

Gently And on the morning of his old

Valera steered friend's arrival he was among the Mr. Maguire toward the door. Ho throng who gathered outside the needed no urging Ho was quite Waldorf Astoria to see him.

ready to go. As he padded down A staff that would do credit to

the corridor, he demanded of nobody a university has been assembled.

in particular: "What did tell ye? From the

silver- college dean,

he in. And he's afther Somehow Mr. Maguire managed A fine man C. haired engineering expert Dr.

to get past the guards and into the rememberin' me all these years. He H. Lander, to the youngest pro-

did down there in the hold and fessor, 34-year-old

hotel. roder expert

Fingering his new tie-green, of mighty cold it must... Dr. A Porter, the entire staff

course he crossed the huge, thickly De Valera chuckled as he stepped with goes about 1 work

Jacking In other carpeted lobby and stepped boldly in to the lift that took him up to his Into the private lift that swished suite on the twenty-sixth door. Mr enthusiasm security establishments I have

him

up to the twelfth floor where Maguire took the down car; down to recently visited.

Mr. de Valera was busily holding his the street and the subway train, that first New York Press conference. runs under Park Avenue, under the Mr. Maguire stood at the back, river and eventually to the end of

Fourth Avenue, in Brooklyn. his face aglow with pleasure.

The scientists

an

skill in the technical regiments. I AM convinced that the college

A few exceptional men will take advanced degrees. It will be possible for-Private-Smith- to become Field-Marshal Dr Smith in the new Army.

Memories

THE tour was doubly interesting 1 to me, to in 1043 I studied at

ol cquivalent wartime

the

college.

will do its job in providing the scientific broins. But I am not satisfied that the Chiefs of Staff will make full use of them.

so

In my view-100 many high-- being ranking technical jobs are filled by non-technical men from the Administrative Staff College at Camberley, chiefly because the War Ofce authorities who 'decide the appointments are Staff College men themselves.

the

If

In those days it was made up

of

laboratories odd

and work- shops scattered about the country Captured Italian petrol and in requisitioned schools: diesel engines were being studied in the engineering not highly appreciated by workshops.. In a nearby shed Russian, German, and Japanese gun carriages were being com- pared with British designs.

The aim

THE college authorities, head

ed by Major-General J. D. Shapland, acknowledge that the military applications of atomic energy are their first-priority coincidence study. It is no that the college is within 50 miles of the Didcot atom station and of five other top-secret research establishments dealing with radar, guided missiles, gus and germ warfare.

There

ard probably than 150 in the Army today,

1cwer

Its graduates, I would say, were the Of three majors who War Office.

who failed me, one studied with

kept his examination the final

who passed rank, while the two

caplain when demoted to ware they

technical took

their up appointmentst

tour.

I

So it was. in a somewhat cynical I began my mood that ended It considerably heartened,

The college is almost a miracle of Improvisation.

influence

on the this goes which the Trained scientific officers should exert on the organisation of the new defence force will be too small.

The lesson

now

TT is clear

that Germany lost the war largely through lack of liaison between the High

and

laboratory the Command scientists. Because they had no technical

with battle oficers experience to gulde them, the their Germann selentists wasted inventive genius on weapons that were impressive but incmelent.

SUNSHINE TRUMAN

By C. V. R. THOMPSON.....

NEW YORK.

SOLVE the world's problems, nowadays when they TUNO is pleking out the

best T is news

say anything nice about Pre- psychiatrists from all its councils. sident Truman.

Their job: To assemble "itters So it must be reported here that data." When they have found out he is suddenly basking in a burst of what makes the world so nervous. favourable publicity.

they are all to meet in London, and decide how everything can be im proved by psycho-analysis. WASHINGTON is

The reason for it provides a lesson for politicians everywhere.

do

One day Mr. Truman decided to without all the ghost-writers who usually write his speeches. He made a speech of his own.

on

Súminer Time, but not Senator John Overlun. As a protest against In- terference with what ho calls "God's time," he will Ignore the change, even at the risk of being an hour late for all appointments and de- bales.

His audience, it happened, com prised a group of American editors, Ever since, they have been raving about Mr. Truman, even if poli- tically they are opposed to him. IF AMERICA had a profits freeze,

Adjectives they have used-car- nest, sincere, good-natured, warm, sure of himself, human.

Impressed with this reaction, the another President has now made impromptu speech, this time at a public dinner.

Again everyone

is applauding Indeed, by taking manpower And even the New York Herald-

anti-Truman materials from more useful Tribune, an

news projects they hastened their paper, congratulates him for rid

ding modern politics of its spooky tone."

and

We must never

The great red brick bulldings country's defent. which house the laboratories and workshops were originally designed lesson. 03 barracks, Now dining rooms bed- have bęcone lecture halls; rooms are professors' studies; tiled

kitchens Arc first-rate chemical

laboratories.

What equipment the staff could

German reparu- not get through tions and British surplus stores they have made. A wooden wind tunnei there

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British officials In America A LL

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QIX JUSTICEB of America's High

MAKERS of a popular American Court recently did their best to cigarette have decided to stop do away with "gentleman's agree- I am officially assured that the

"an English blend." ments. These are covenants among Army Council is now completely calling them

have slumped in owners of property by which all un- convinced of the importance of Reason: Salce technicians in the new defence sections of New York as a result dertake not to sell to Negroes or Indians or sometimes to Jews, The of the Palestine situation. force.

court, urged to take a stand on this for 100 years or more, question

題 Solomon's decision produced

violate no law, Such agreements

I hope that these "official assurances" are completely Brm. I hope there, will be no slipping buck,

HMM--SHE CAN'T [SEEM TO GET OFF

THE GROUND

BOOK of General Eisenhower'a speeches has come out, and for once all the critics agreed about it- Full of truth and senso.

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