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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY, 18, 1949.

The Price of Power

RUSSIA will not fight the United States →→→ BECAUSE the have she will not

at industrial capacity for least 25 years, possibly for half-a-century.

arc

nuswar:-

Where does Britnin stand in this THREE: Ruslan rallways are sparno

America's and further weakened by bolite East-West tug-of-war?

bomb team of experts give a clear-cut which necks

casy targets. EVIDENCE: The total railtrack unleage in Russia is about 60,000.

compared with America's 230,000.

tion.

Britain a permanently led Uncle Sam's coal-talls whether she likes it or not. Because-say the strategists-the Empico le now Nussiane could not almost completely dependent on FOUR: The

possibly make enough atom bombs Amerleau sen-air power for protec- for global war before 1970. EVIDENCE: Russia has no avail- to able sources of high-grade uranium unlikely

scientists and "preventive" war and is short of atom

Savict

Union equipment, material of

FIVE: America as a clear lead in vital fields of war the other and psychological reasons.

AMERICA is

start a

on the BECAUSE

T

research.

EVIDENCE; Reports

that

show HESE are the opinions of

of she is more advanced in aviation, a high-level group American diplomats, guided miselles, germ warfare, polson submarine develop- ases, and fast

scientists, and military experts ment, whose report of a two-year strategic study has just been published in London by the Rogal Institute of International Affairs ("The Price Of Power," Harper Eros, 18m.).

BY

CHAPMAN

PINCHER

But Communists have a 10- holds-barred approach to diplo macy. So in spite of the pre- diction America must push on to achieve the only safeguard in bombs and an age of tom

the

is no missiles Transatlantic ability to return an attack with longer won by the big battalions, but by the big factories, backed by the

interest.

The report-written up by military commentator Hunson W. Baldwin-Ilsts five major, reasons for discounting the Hkelihood

Russian at of tack:-

The report supports this evidence with the conclusion:-

"Victory In modern

war

The price they say Britain must pay for this protection is to serve as America's foothold 11

Europe "for military the application power."

of U. S.

Britalit, It is polnied aut, la not altogether an ideni ally. The report as these serious objections to cur friendship:-~-

GEOGRAPHICALLY, Britain is the world's easiest target for atomic Dir attack and blockade by super- submarines.

ECONOMICALLY, she is thren- tened by the loosening bonds of the Empire and the growing industria- Usation of the rest of the work)."

POLITICALLY, she is sick. "To cure her economic ills she is impon- ing more and more controls-always a doubtful and dangerous expedient" MILITARILY, Britain "cannot afford the insurance of a large navy, army and air force."

marty

Americans, strategists have the Errol Flynn

glosses over complex which advantages of Britain as an ally. For example, they appear to believe that

Like

these

the

• just as Amorica an- nounces that she has more and better atom bombs, a roport which makes war seom loss imminent has boon published in Britain. examines the and hopeful signs, gives the answer to is America why still prepared to pay the price of power.

It

"For the last time. Egbert, it doesn't matter if they're not the same as the babes in your book!"

WHAT HAPPENED IN RED-TAPED BRITAIN TO

A girl who wanted a job

by JOHN PREBBLE

S. scientists, single-handed, on-HIS is the extraordinary perary basis, but was informed that vented such innovations as the radio-Toy of Such Alterkey he could not "In view of the demands.

proximity fusc.

our enemics

needing

without the consent of the of which found her willing to learn

and Intelligent.

On Thursday, June 3, Ministry of Labour the Eaglo Star Insuranco Company, employment cards, Sarah went to Limited, and its Nottingham the exchange with Mr Norton. L

were

big laboratories."

There the matter rested for a The strategists are confident that

It was, of course, a British devicesky aged, 27, of Nottingham, of higher national importance

For engaging her as a week, with Sarah working behind America can keep the whiphand in the answer to the V1 bomb.

But there is criticism, too, of 5-a-week shorthand-typist her typewriter at Eagle Star, officials the "know-how" of making modern

But they admit that the American Intelligence, which, they

Initiative

of say, has fallen oft since 1045. And arms. "know-when-the triggering-off a

of the U.S. soldier, of whom they war-must remain

say with Rusein. And this is why:-

It would be impossible, they may,

"We did not have the stomach for ONE: Russla is even further behind

were each fined 10 was too scared to go alone." she "The, and many of the Russians."

manager,

SOYB.) America Indusitially than general- to."sell" the American people on the fighting possessed by

nced for a preventive war.

They

seen by Miss, M.. other what

The strategists write off the United guineas and 10 guineas costs. ly believed,

U.S. still possesses

great Nations as a

So means of getting safe

Sarah Alterkovsky, still Simons, senior woman officer, who EVIDENCE: Russia's steel target nations have

natural re- for 1950 which is 25,400,000 tons middle class which, with its sound control of atomic weapons.

They say that to try to organise puzzled by it all, goes on record pointed out that Sarah had failed as the subject of the first prosecu- to notify them that she was em- international contro!

all the tion under the Control of Engage played, Nonetheless she received her is far less thon U.S. production was conservatism, has in 1913 and is only about 40 percent, pugnance for extremes,"

So much for America's psycho- weapons of mass destruction is justment Order, which came into forco cards.

An uneventful month passed, and of America's prezent output.

logical reasons for not being able to chasing shadows.

But, in spite of today's For, even with Stalin's agreement,

Her story begins 11 months ago, then the exchange sent for Sarah.. TWO: Russian industry is more con- start a war.

report that

America's it would be physically impossible when she went to Britain after fout She was asked, and agreed to sign in a statement, as was the fact that. centrated and more vulnerable to impressive

is "really

years rolling to inspect every Russian factory and atomic project

as un Admiralty clerk capable bombing than U S. industry.

view, laboratory

of making

she was employed by Eagle Star. she is NOT, in my EVIDENCE: Soviet blast furnaces now,"

Russian-born, she and other metal-processing plants ready for atomic war: And could not germ bombs. And, anyway, America

became bas no up-to-date maps of Russia! be ready for many years.

citizen are massed in three areas.

BERNARD HARRIS

reports

a

destroyed-1

the

secret of

of

bank's view on

HOW TO BE HAPPILY MARRIED

TT is a sign of the times when one of the world's big banks turns its attention from money and overdrafts and cash ratios to a discussion of the per- manence of love, the secrets of happy marriage, and the up- bringing of children.

But this is what the Royal Bank of Canuda has just done.

The bank, which is run by many self-made men, comments on the It believes that the family is the prevalling fashion to laugh at books most Important of all social-jiko. Samuel Smiles's "Self-Ilefp." institutions, and must be preserved. But It points out that the heroes of these works won what they worked for.

So it has set its researchers in- quiring into the strains and stresses which are impairing family relation ships and causing some families to break up.

"Improvement of family living." If says, "is not merely sentimental It is a necessity for the smooth-

the community, running nation. and the

democracy."

vitality

sound

of

The bank's Investigators agree

that one of the reasons for family

or

"Today's easy life is pictured us being reached by smariness outwitting other people, or leaning social security provided by parents or the Government."

on

Unable to resist on occasional banking term, the Royal Bank din eusses one of the symptoms

"devalun- family breakdown-the tion of parents."

of

In the old days the beliefs and

in' 1947.

Egypt.

a British when ber

father wis na- turalised.

She joined

her

parents in Liver- pool in March last year. After two months, "A

lost and keen to work," "she went to

she

Nottingham, where has friends. began to an- advertise-

and

swer

ments.

She also went to

the Appointments

Sarah Alterkovskv

Sarah then understood that she

was

being given her last chance and that if she left" Eagle Star she would be found work, otherwise she would be directed.

Sarah

asked what that meant,: and she was told.

She says that she was also told that there was a penal- t of three ty

months! for

n-compliance..

Officer, who advised her to go to Sarah sald to herself: If I'm the Labour Exchange.

,

I'm

From June 24 to July 30, says Sarah, she was sent to three pro- spective employers.

not allowed to

work where Just then she received the one wanted, and not wanted where I'm and only reply to her twenty letters told to go, how am I to live?"

from the The management' of Eagle Star. On father's ability as a bread-of application. It was

Stor Insurance Company readily gave her permission to!!! winner, the Government Inquiry Eagle

whom she was any employer to the biggest households Limited.

directed. are those in which the finds that in Britain

£5 10s. a week. That was 7 chief-wage-carner brings home bo- tween £4 and.

Almost one in three of households consists of five with this income or more persons. The proportion is only one in four where the chief wage-carner makes £10 a week or the Thus the inquiry confirms of children declines as the family widely held bellef that the number

income goes up.

more.

Another frequent cause of family couples upsets is young married "living with mother."

were famous for

A STRANGE WEEK

20. Thursday, May Then begon a strange week, the events of which were to become the

The first was British Hallways. subject of much legal argument in Nottingham's Guildhall.

On the Friday she saw the chief She was asked what Englisks towns what industries. of the company. On the She did not know. clerk Saturday she saw Mr George do

A builder to whom she was, pent- Gruchy, the manager.

decided it would be months before. He found her satisfactory, bul

the technical terms she

Crasped her she must first sce "th

necessary.

Sarah, told

cmployer, says Another Boulevard," tho people in Castle

the interview with Labour Exchange. She went there began the and was told she could not take the words: "I know you don't want to. post.

come and work for me." On the Monday she saw Mr E. V.

discord is the "fostering of roman attitudes which a boy learned from EVERY THING COUNTS Norton, chief accountant of the in

by movies, radio. advertisements,

and

dreams Lic magazines, newspaper stripa."

They point out that in Canada, as in other countries, many hasly, Ill-considered marriages were tered into during the war, "and the parties are now living above their emotional income."

cn-

They approve a Canadian poll of public opinion which gave romance a low rating as the most important quality in marriage.

MORE IMPORTANT.

MARRIED women agreed that it

was more important that the man should be a "good provider," faith- ful, patient, and kind.

mer

And what do the married regard as the top-ranking qualities? first, homemaker" comes "Good and then there is a long drop to the next most Important

quality. "Agreeable, good company."

The Royal Bank complains that nowadays "young people are misled into expecting that they can float through life on a cloud of romance," It is only after marriage 'that they discover that the basis on which love exists is the discharge of mutual obligations.

NANCY

Alert Squirt

MUSEUM

his father would serve him almost through life.

THANKS to the inquiry, we now learn that one household in 12 in Britain has one or more married or "in-law" children in it.

But not now. Today hardly any THA aspect of family life is criticism.

safe from

Things which may cause domestic discord include the size of the home and its amenities, mother's qualities as a homemaker, father's ability as a bread-winner.

While the Royal Bank was pur- suing its inquiries, a Government sponsored investigation was going on in Britain which throws a good deal

difcuilles.

of light on these causes of family

These investigatora report that almost one houtchold in four in Britain is overcrowded. in Scotland the proportion is as high as one in two. Overcrowding. they define as having more than one person per

room.'

As for amenities, they find that nearly half the households in Britain have no piped hot water supply. Only one in three has a piped supply to sink, bath, and handbasin.

And households without either gas or electricity? One in every eight is in this condition.

Almost as many have one or morn boarders. But only one in a hundred has a domestic servant.

And as for mother's qualities as a homemaker, how many can afford part-time help?

The Inquiry shows that only six in every 100 are able to do so. Of those who do have help,

percent have help for four hours

SULANCE

explained company. He the position to her.

"So I knew it was Bnished," says Sorah.

NOT ENGAGED Since she had to have work, she

POLICEMAN CALLS"

She got none of the jobs and was sent to no more. In the five months the herself in that Saroh found centre of this trouble she was sent

to Ave employers only,

went to the Labour Exchange.

In August a policeman called on They sent her to a firm of molt her and subpoenaed her to appear as. The manager found witness in the case which the Minis- engineers, Sarah very lady-like," but double: try of Labour was bringing against whether she would learn the tech her employers. nical terms in time.

In court, Mr de Gruchy admitted The second place to which she that he knew it was a breach of was sent was a baby clinic. They the Order to employ a person not did not take her there either. sent to him by the exchange.

Bock sho 20

It was suggested by Miss Simons went to the Appoint- ments Ofeer to be told once more a regrettable suggestion" counsel.. that although they had not found called 11-that Sarah had not done her n job she still could not work her best at interviews, with other for the Eagle Star. Meanwhile Mr employers. de Gruchy, not being allowed the

But Sarah is still working for the services of Sarah, asked the ex- sent him one who was unsuitable. insurance, company, change for a shorthand-typist. They

Colonel J. B. Andrus, secretary a telegram On the Wednesday arrived for Sarah asking her to call of the company, said: "The Ministry When she went failed completely to find her work.. at the Eagle Star.

was offered the job. My de lad she not been doing a, lemporary she Gruchy said he would take respon- jeb with us she would have been albility.

or less per week, 42 percent five to 12 hours, and the rest more than 12 hours,

The Royal Bank believes there is no simple and easy way of dealing with the conditions which promote family disorganisation.

"In family life," it says, "there are no trifles. Everything counts.

"Being a family means having fun together, as well as thouldering to- gether the serious things like, bills. housing troubles, and the children's school problems.

Not without relief, Sarah

Eagle Star and Mr de Gruchy wefe nned.

out

of work.". There Is a footnote to this story.

that the. "A sense of humour can soften cepted, and started her first job in The National Joint Advisory Council

recently recommended the blows, that are sure to fall. For England on Thursday, May 27,

Mr de Gruchy asked the exchange Government should extend the direg-- a family to be able to laugh at the sume things is the saving grace." if he might employ her on a tem-tion of labqur for another year. :

By Ernie Bushmiller

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