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AMERICA Her strength

and stresses.

AS WORLD-POWER 1

WASHINGTON.

ASKED a friend of mine who is a colonel in United States Army. In- telligence what would have happened" if war with Russia had come during the "spring crisis" last March, or if it should come now over the Berlin sicge.

He answered: "If it had como, in March the west would probably havo won in the long run; I believe we could just about have turned the trick. But if wo can get our plans successfully. translated into men, machines, and bases; if wo THE get some lucky breaks; not

AND too many rows between the Services or between America

BEGINNING with RUSSIA, followed last week by BRITAIN, the Hongkong Telegraph. now continues its examination of the strength and stresses among the main world: Powers with the first of a two- part SURVEY OF AMERICA. Once again the same plan of research and high-level investigation has been followed. Today's report is divided into two sections one, the on-the-spot story from

work Washington; two, the

that shapes the future, by

for Chapman Pincher, who has had special opportunities

PAGE studying U.S. long-range armament plans

tomorrow:-"CROSS-CURRENTS round the WHITE HOUSE.”

OUTLOOK HERE

NOW

by

and the Western European R. M. MacColl

Union, then I think we shall be strong enough to deter anyone from attacking us now." "And if the attack should come later all the same?"

I believe that, emotionally, most Americans, though pas- sionately haling war, are ready for it-if it has to be.

"We could, I believe, bent them fairly quickly and at not qualities? too great a cost in lives and America's treasure for the West."

What of Amerlea's fighting Baldwin. Hanson foremost military critic and now sitting on

over

The U. S. Army

#

•

THIS

enormous industrial enterprise, with floods of machines pouring off the assembly lines.

war,

nre on the point of developing radar that can plek up a Schnorkel.

America's own, military problems and tasks are heavy enough but the But even in this fold there and circumstances of history in the past weaknesses. One of the most murk- two years have placed her in a posi- ed is the mercantile marine. As in tion of almost certainly having to the period after the 1914-18 rearm and re-equlp Western Europe. America's merchant fleet shows signs

She must raise the present 14 or of a serious decline. 15 rather sketchy divisions of West Europe (some of the French are very badly equipped) to a minimal of 45 strong motorised attack divisions, capable of holding even 'the swarm-S Ing Red Army on the line of the Rhine in a show-down.

But America does not possess a big surplus of World War If. arms, and

In a total war America would range only 145,000,000 people against Russia's 190,000,000. Experts cat- culate that by 1972 the populations will have grown to 160,000,000 and 250,000,000 respectively.

then offsetting this But more

Summing up

UMMING up America's mlitary and economle position the main 1. Poor Intelligence;

sireases are:--

2. Inter-Service dissension;

leadership 3. Lack of

middle-oMeer level;

4. Shortage

materials

and

or

BEO

HEAKFAST

HOW HEATHEN IS BRITAIN?

By SYDNEY REDWOOD TEARLY 50 percent of young Englishence today are pagan servi-pugat).

and most of

the

nominal Christians have no more

than a half-hearted unsatisfactory type of faith, and are incapable of anying why they believe as much as they do.

This is the conclusion arrived at by B. G. Sandhurst after lecturing to well over 5,000 Army cadets in His audiences the past two years, were young men agod. between 18 and 22, the majority drawn from the ht

N.CO. Publie and secondary schools, with a sprinkling older men from the of the "new" raw ranks or Dominions.

Mr Sandhurst, who is neither n possible inter- ruption of their supply in professional teacher nor u clergy- inan, has recorded his experiances Heathen la Britain?" a "How

His mission published by Collins. was to discuss postwar problems, and before taking up the appoints ment he made it clear that he would over the principle of tho Christian social order and make that the touchstone by which to judge the innumerable plans now before the bemused citizen.

wartime; on

5. The burden of reatining and re-equipping Western Europe as well as the United States. The main strengths are:-

1. The A-bomb;

2 A powerful alr Geet, anor to put grow bigger;

3. Excellent propulsion,

progress

jet-

The colonel, in speaking of Government committee design what she has is most unbalanced. inter-Service quarrels, had put el lo streamline the armed Ser- his finger on one of the great vices, wrote this:--

"Americans like to gloss weaknesses of America's mili-

or conceal their weak- tary situation.

ness, but we did not have in Bitterness, jealousy, and "the the bulk the stomach for fight-nannte of manpower in America's other fellow be damned, my Sering or the heart for fighting colossal industrial strength, backed vice right or wrong" attitude

by a virtual sufflelency of home- between the United States Possessed by our enemies, or

possessed, for that matter, by grown food.

America's factories turn out nearly Force Army, Navy, and Air

many Russians."

half the world's entire Industrial chiefs have prevailed to an ex-

and production, Her transformers

4. Unmatched industrial strength account generators

hrif tent unheard-of in other coun-

the and transport facilities: and world's power, As against that she 5. Self-suficiency in food. tries.

Plus one other factor:. This time needed in modem war,

America is fully and coldly awake The bickering has continued THE military forces into is short of some of the raw material

nt it to the realities and langers of a American genius is seen which young "draftees" are while America spends billions for possible war, seeks foreign due to be absorbed are today most inspired when engaged in some brittic world. bases from which her bombers far smaller than United States

* 课 may some day pulverise Rus chiefs consider even remotely sian production centres, and proper for the nation's securi- launches the biggest pencelime ty. But they are beginning to arms drive in her history.

expand, and potentially they 5 YEARS are the most formidable in Behind the scenes history.

The Army wants 25 divisions A

YEAR ago America's armed,

as a minimum including ter- Services were

officially

better middle- "unified" by an Act of Congress, ritorials, and and the public were relieved to rank officers and N.C.0.9.

This is how the-Services think that streamlining was a

for the fact and that quarrels were shape up stilled at last. But, behind the year;—~ scenes, quarrels raged as fiercely

as ever.

Present

coming

Strength strength July 1, 1949

Army Navy Marinca Air Force

790,000

434,675

81.723 382,000

89,225

444,500

548,000 389,070

among

Called the THE RESEARCH FOR

AHEAD by

Biological Bomb Mark I., it is a cluster of thin

each tubes,

charged with а virulent germ

Cas culture. ended over the target they ex-

But after a few weeks he came to the conclusion that there were so few Christians in his classes that It was a waste of time to talk of the Christian social order without preparing the ground beforehand by giving the evidence on behalf of Christianity. For eight or nine months, he writes, "I saw no reason to alter my melancholy conclusion

in a

tiny that Christians were minority, and that materialism was Brmly entrenched. It was not that the boys lacked interest or were In any way hostile, but during dis- the exception for anyone to back up the Christian argument."

Chapman Pincher plode, senitering the germscussions it was

is

Atom bombs first-and then Germs

most of which survive viastmas a fine mist,

the

Tesis with dummy Allings have shown that one bomb could infect at least 1,000 people

over a built-up area.

MERE ANIMALS

If dropped learned that among this cross- section of the educated youth of Britain there was a steady minority The U.S. General Staff stipulated of over one-third who denied that

were do not easily they

anything more than that germs which cause epidemies should be chosen animals, and about the same num- for bomb Allings, as uncontrollableber who denled the existence of any A outbreaks would delay occupation known permanent standards. by ground forces.

large majority fully 90 percent professed utter ignorance of the par- Pilot plants to mass-produce the pose and goal of human life.

at Camp For this state of affairs, Mr Sand- fillings have been built

hurst, who, received some 3,000 re- plies to a questionnaire he prepared Detrick, Maryland.

work, In step with this

plant

on Gallup poll llacs, blaines the The atom bomb still rates 113 for the large-senle production of

Immunise troops has methods of religious instruction in.

schools. deterrent No. 1. But running it close vaccines to

the germ

bomb-now an been devised.

Often enough, he remarks, and by Christian mediately operational weapon.

Germ bombs are easier and chea- has been brought up These are the facts which are

And because their effects can be to think ho comes conscious of a between the almos- localised they can be used in field contradiction

phere of a selence form and that of warfare.

the

in 'scripture class, and If, as 3.-Guided Missiles only too often the case, it is Uterally scripture class and nothing else (where little or no attempt is made br German rocket to show that what is being read is ELPED scale production of a moro power- selentists headed by V2 inventor Important or even true), the boy, ful Mark-recently tested in the Werner von Braun, the U.S. has begins to doubt. As he grows older Facile will be stopped up shortly made great strides towards master-and when new construction work at the ing the problems of guiding super-animal grab now bringing us to the Hunford.

ex speed missiles to specific targets. Washington State,

Total plosives plant is completed.

include Successful projects cores

A.A. rocket which rides target gure is said to be 1,000 by 1050.

The Navy and Air Force es- pecially were at each other's

IN research on

the four Mias- throats, and in Secretary for

Totals

1,400,700 1,758,400 destruction weapons which must Air Stuart Symington, Defence

There is now almost com- dominate any future confulet the US,

the easily leads the world. Secretary Forrestal has a tough, uncompromising man. Though plete agreement nominally his junior, Symington war chiefs that the Air Force flouted must be America's sharp spear has more than or.ce

in another war, and it is to Forrestal's-wishes-openly.

be expanded to 70 groups,-25 Lately things have improved. of them jet-propelled fighter shaping the power of U.S. defence per-to-make-than atom bombs. parents, but as soon as he begins There is agreement in principle

the groups, and 26 groups of main- on strategic policy, and Navy-Air Force foud is at least ly jet-propelled bombers.

a first-line There will be quiescent.

Elsewhere in Washington bomber force of 900 Super- there have been bitter quarrels, Fortresses to be replaced later and these in one of the most by a new type.. vital and most sensitive spots

machine-Intelligence.

Naturally, not much leaks out

of America's entire war security

20,000 plaxies

TOTAL force of 20,450 planes, of which 8,000 would on this matter, but United States Intelligence since the be operational (including trans-,

in the critical years ahead-

1.-Atomics

MERICA has a stockpile of about A400 atom-bomb cores of the Mark 17. type used at Nagasaki. Large

Most

considera the vest gam

of

brink of destruction, his doubts are confirmed and his faith is lost anthrough the sheer inefficiency of his a masters. It is they who have made

end of the war has been one of ports) and the remainder for are earmarked for the Air radio beam locked to un aircraft, God's revelation appear as a boring

wants

The rest

siderable area.)

In

4.- Gases

be

the

will go to the target: a short-to-ship antt-invasion and outworn lie, and a badly toki for charging atomic mines. missile; an anti-bomber rocket to be lie at that."

under development include an im WIDESPREAD NEGLECT the most glaring of her military Air Reserve and Air National Senator Brien McMahon, of the US. carried by fighter aircraft. Projects

is the Senate Atomle Committee, told me proved V2 (Territoriul),

capable of carrying| CCHOOLMASTERS are accused of weaknesses.

Guard

scientists calculated that a 3.000lb. of T.N.T. for 500 miles and purveying "morality tinged with goal. The Navy would have naval

deep-water detonation-3,000 feet intended for bombardment of landmotion," of widespread neglect and A dreary story 14,500 planes of its own.

down-would open the scams of the targets from ships.

inefficiency, which would not con- A strongest warships over a

tolerated for a The Air Force

moment In The ultimate Glin-a guided AFTER the war Colonel "Bull" minimum of 5,200 planes a

uranium rocket to carry the atom bomb-is teaching of any other subject, and addition the U.S.

of putting of lacking the capnelty Donovan's Office of Strategic year from American "factories

of considered impracticable for at least Christianity In Its proper setting- furnaces are a potential source Services was dissolved and ♫ in the next few years.

that of a sane and living philosophy. "Thirty years ago," Mr Sandhurst Central Intelligence Agency took

The Navy, too, is building huge quantiles of radioactive waste ten years.

products the so-called "death dust,”

adds, "religion was taken for granted, its place.

prototypes of experimental Sprayed from low-flying aircraft it

and any attempt to reason about it The history of the C.I.A, has ships. The bare announce could cause widespread sickness

Ten years ago I believe that the been a dreary story of rows ment was made last month among civil populations, with the State Department, that an "anti-submarine sub- with the F.B.I., with the Intelli- marine" is being built, but all gence Services of the armed

tion has changed. The horrors of the Navy Department will re-

Colourless.

no smell, it this war have completed the work forces, with the Atomic Energy veal is that she is small, fast, Commission.-

would look liko rain if sprayed of disintegration begun in 1014. and highly manoeuvrable.

All certainly as to the existence of from low-flying aircraft.

has gone.

The But, as

moral standarda angry voices are

Next year the Navy starts on more

and denial, of heard at these high levels, "anti-submarine submarines" which

The German pilot plant which persistent neglect

con-Christian dogma has been followed huge, bustling, traditionally are certainly intended as an answer

pressure research, experimental manufactured Sarin Russian-adapted German- peaceable America moves with to

with the world's the bulk of the fechalelaps who which derive from it, and from it

alone." astonishingly little fuss into the designed Schnorkels, hitherto se units of the U.S. Air Force are trolled by Russia. But the U.S. has by the destruction of the principles

garded as undetectable by radar, being equipped

operational. germ weapon, operated It. business of rearming.

But I understand that the Americans first

the

S.

Since dust dangerona for only US ARMY chemists have im- would have been considered Indecent. proved the battle possibilities of a few days can be manufactured the German polson gas Sarin, which nominal Christians would have been it would be possible to demoralise is 1,000 times more effective than temptuous. Today the whole situa-

and then drop mustard gas.

city's inhabitants

airborne forces after the dust had

lost its power.

2.-Germ Bombs

FOLLOWING three years, high-

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