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SILCEA 1

The Filipinos Return To Their Fields

By James J. Halsema CABANATUAN, CENTRAL LUZON. Three million-

Innocent bystanders think the end of Central Luzon's bloody two years of civil war in a good idea. They hope it continues. And in the meantine they are working feverishly to plant their long neglected fields.

Six months ago Central Luzon seemed a huge valley of misery. Thousands of peasants had fed their native It villager to set up rude slincks along the highways. was a hard life, but better than being caught in a volley of fire brween the government Constabulary and the Hukbalahap Ruorillas. People were ragged, underfed and Alled with gloom. There seemed to be no solution for their troubles. Each day saw the situation de- teriorating. Travel was unsafe. The rice bowl of the Philippines lived by the rule of the gun.

300 mile tour through what Filipinos call

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"It Today the seven provinces of the great central

plain of Luzon-shows feverial; activity. Every man, woman and child is busy getting the previous rice seedlings into the ground. They must intrry, for the planting season is almost over. The women are in gay dresses and conical perked straw hats to ward off the hot summer min: the men in einelts with floppy shirts that hang outside their trousers. There is no time for gaiety or singing to the accompanishment of string or- chestras playing the folk tune "Planting Rice is Never Fun."

FRAGILE PEACE

PEACE-albeit a fragile peace-has come to the rice.

bowl. The "balswashon" villages are emptying. Morlar and machine-gun fire no longer are heard through the night, and the flames of burning houses are no more to be seen.

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HE Royal Air Force is now officially Britain's first line of defence. Mr Alexander, Minister of De- fence, made this plain to the world when he recently gave the follow- ing "priority" is for the services:- 1. Research. 2. The NAF. 3. The Royal Navy. 4. The Army.

So the role which, for centuries. traditionally (and facluntly) has been that of the Navy, has been transferred to the air. The Alghter aircraft, and not the battle fleet, is now to be "the first sure shleld, ond, by the same token, the bomber becomes the prime offensive weapon.

OF

DEFENCE

able" storehouse to within, say, three shore hundred miles of the enemy tine. There is only one way to do this, and that is by air, using load- carrying oireratt,

Here, then, is the chance for the defence force. It will have to light a fighter-versus-bomber war on or bryond a ring 300 nilles from coastline.

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fuse shells were used in the latter stages of World War H. The big snag is to devise ground controlled pilotless ndreraft which can turn and manoeuvre at 2,000 m.p.h. without breaking under the strain.

President Elipido Quirino has gone

long way to implement the nmnesty-lie extended to Buk leader Luis Turve and his followers. The Constabulary provincial commanders mast active against the fuks have been transferred. Some Constabu- lary unlis also have been replaced. and others withdrawn permanently. One still sees government police in their G1 greens but they are relax- ed. Town policemen are turning their attention to trafic violators. Schools lang deserted are being re- But he would not have won the opened. Repairs on Irrigation sys- war-far from it.

All his opponent's eggs would not be in the one basket, and, even with his mainland "out," reprisals would come from come other base But, if and when, selence con give or bases unaffected by the original the RAF weapons which fulfil the blitz. two lots of requirements set out

By Charles Gardner

But it has got to be a wholly suc- cessful defensive war with 100 per cent of shooting down. A few "atom

It is a big responsibility which the bombern" slipping into rocket Bring RAF and its associated

Common- range and shooling off their missiles wealth air forces now undertake. might menn, the end of London and The problems it faces are larger the home countries. The 10 per- than Drake or Nelson or Beatty ever cent of Aghter success which was dreamed of. Where the Admirals enough to win any air battle of often had time and distance on their World War II will not be enough in side, the RAF has both these vital another. In fact, 00 percent will factors against them. A few split not be enough! seconds may determine the course of any future war, if the world foolish enough to allow one to hop- pen. The odds are, too, that those vital split seconds will occur on the first day of hostilities-and they may even occur without or offelal declarations.

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warning

LIOW, then, can air force. hope I to guard Britain (or any other country) against such an atom weapon blitz?

them.

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Furthermore, these nir battles of the future, should they ever happen, may be fought at 60,000 or 80,000 feel, at speeds of 1,000 miles

The rocket-carrying hour or more. bombers will probably cruise 1,000 mph. at 60,000 feet, and the fighters' top speed will then have to be 2,000 m.p.h.

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AN human defensive, ingenuity CAN

ever fight battles at these speeds and heights, and fight them so well that not one solitary enemy aircraft gels through with its obliterating-

above, then we have the basis of a defence against an alomle war.

same

There ure, doubtless. other methods of approaching the problem, but remembering that con- tinuous 100 percent success is de- manded. It needs no emphasta from me to show how huge is the task.

There is, however, one other com- pletely different way of looking at à possible atomle war-and it is the one which comforts me most-that is, the simple maxim that nobody would be fool enough to start it,

tems, roads and government build- Ings have been begin.

No one knows Just how far the Huts will go to carry out their part of the bargain. Their sympathisers. In Huklandia gloss over the sur render of arms issue which was set forth in the amnesty proclamation. "What does that matter as long p everyone going buck lo tho farms?" said an attendant at a fill- ing station in Cabanatuan. President Quirino himself had taken a similar

So next day-the attacker would get a dose of his own medicine, and large tracts of its land would bo laidi waste. This dose of medicine, If it were to be given with the stand at a necessary despatch, would have to Manila a few days before his senti- be carried-ns the aggressor had enrried his missiles by the force.

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ments wero general among the air poorer classes. They wesre slek and

tired of sirife.

The war would then virtually be over and so would our civilisation.

DIFFERENT OPINION AMONG the landowners, however, there is a different oplriton. "The Huks are just stalling," the impres- slon goes among this class., "They VERY, leader in every country are fooling the government into giv

knows the truth of this, for no ing them inore and more, Soon they one la now silly enough to think, as will run everything."

They believe Hitler thought, that a blitz war can President Quirino, successor to the be won, and the gains held ! over-late President Manuel Roxas night, whatever the weapons used.

leader of the Liberal Party, has let them down. In Nueva Ecija pro- governor heartily in favour of the vince one finds the opposition,party

President and the defeated Liberal Party candidate speaking of leaving his party in disgust.

monwealth, unless an enemy could, In the case of the British Com-

on that vital Orst day, lay waste Britain, Canada, Australia, and all Take the theoretical case of any the other Commonwealth countries one of the great powers attacking and Colonies and do it at the same But the men and women in the another-both sides possessing alam Instant of time, then he weapons,

himself middle-the innocent bystanders The attocking could probably,

power would surely be destroyed on the who always get hurt-hope and pray by spilt blitz morrow. The reprisal could come that they will be able to go safely technique (failing Д satisfactory from any one of a thousand places to their fields this winter to bring -defence such-as- I have been dis---and laying waste even-nine hun-in-that rice they are-planting now, cussing), wipe cut or paralyse his dred of them would not save the And do it again next year-Asso-

day.

elated Press. - opponent's mainland.

THE WOMEN STAY ON-AND SMILE

BERLIN.

If we study this problem objee tively, certain things stand out clearly, and are so obvious that one load? steeds no specialised knowledge Dr "inside" information to appreciato

I must,

right

Setence and, research alone cant that

that. But here are 蟲 have Bay

very little answer lutely no inside Information. This which such a defence force would summary of mine is merely have to have:- man's examination of known facts, and his deductions as 'to possibic 1. An early warning radar device counter-measures. Whether those which would give 10 minutes' counter-measures are the easlest or notice to the fighters. As the the correct ones, no one short of the bombers would travel 200 miles in Air Counell, can say, and whether 10 minutes, the rader would have

clalised abse couple of the more obvious things Lunknown heroes of the cold wat

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they are technically` possible is a to give 200 or 300 miles worning if

First of all, the "Interception" problem,

2. Fighters capable of direct climb up to 00,000 feet in two or three minutes and of a level speed of 2,000 m.p.h....

ET us sing the saga of the

of Berlin-the British women who refuse to leave the beleaguered city because they are determined to stay by their husbands, to look after them, and so to show the world that once again British women can take

I have spoken to quite a number of these British wives,

BY RICHARD MCMILLAN

Now she to staying on in the beslaged city, keeping a' smile for the outside world, a smile especially for those anxious Berliners, who have pinned their faith to the British.

young Finnish; girl who lives near Helsinki.....

Henry is 20. He met his sweet- heart when he was'a Laiftwaffe pilot during the war and one day he hopes to make her his bridé.

What would you like to do?" I asked Henry. "Sir." he answered immediately and I belleve he meant every word he said "I should like to become a pilot with the RAF, and If there is war, I would like to fight for Britain.

Then I visited a girl who comes matter for research, which, you re situated on the outer defence ring

from NewcasUc. She is married to Inember, Is "No. 1 Priority. This itself, or 600 to 700 miles warning Some of them are mothers of an ex-RAF omcer who is now with. examination of Britain's new air I based in Britain. With enemy familles. Others are young girls. a British film organisation.. defence problem is, then. sot out bombers at 00,000 feet this miny be recently married, the type of British

She told me: "We have our prob- "Once upon a time we sang in mainly to provide a "talking point," possible. If the bombers come

women who, during the war, carried

we have not the Wehrmacht ranks, We alt and to underline the difficultles ot lower, to cheat radar, they lose their the huge task which the junior ser- speed, and so this move would enn-

marched against England. Now all on at home, in munition factories lems, certainly, but vice has now shouldered.

and alreraft plants, or, maybe, drove much to grumble about.

"We get our rations regularly, co the Berliners like myself, realise cel itself out.

cara, or becamo conductresses, and

we are certainly not going hungry. what a mistake we made. generally did a job of work to help

"Sometimes we have to queue up "We all want to march with

We to through.,

win

for food, but it is not so bad as the England. We admire "Britain. The ther Tho theme. of all their remarks old. war days in England, when admire the people. We admire the

wives had to spend long land. », during our conversations has been Brillah the game"We women sometimes hours in line.

"It would be nice to be home think wo can face the situation

in London today, certainly, but there better than some of you men."...

"We realise, of course, that the is no reason why we should not men know more about what is stay on in Berlin, so we are staying." This young woman and her hus going on than we do, but we do feel that we must stay with our band live in one of the suburban

in order to help them husbands

blocks of flats under the control of the British authorities. through the crisis."

One young woman I talked with is the daughter of famous KC She has only been married about They were married eight months. in the Garrison Church in Berlin.

atomic rockets of V2 type aro used in any future war, then the possibilitica af interception do not exist once the rocket is launched, Fortunately, however, there is very He possibility of a racket being made to cover great distances. Its enormous fuel consumption for a relatively small war-load makes it an impracticable weapon over ranges much greater than two or three hundred miles

This, too, is possible with rocket- nided jets, or ram-jets. Whether a human pilot could stand the strain is doubtful, but if may not be neces sary to have human pilots in alther the bombers or the fighters. When at altitude, the fighters must also be capable of manoeuvre and be able to "home" automatically on to the bombers. At the correct range they would fire self-homing projectiles.

In a big scale war, therefore, the atom rockot would havo to be This, again, is possible, sinco self- carried from their "safe, unbomb- homing ammunition and proximity

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After these visits. I went on further tour of Investigation. I had a new German driver-Henry,

As he drove me around the city he told me his love story with a

By Ernio Bushmiller

SO DO I

"That would be the land of which. I should like to go with my bride, co that we might work together in peace and security, and build up a home and family and thus enable our children, to become good, lionest Britishers."

You may think it sounds like the old German propaganda, but I do not. Nearly every Berliner I havo spoken to seems to have similar ideas.

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