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Sir John ANDERSON

former chairman of the Government's advisory committee on atomic energy

*The

These would be startling, ir, in it

reassurinst measure, conclusions, but I would advise readers stromily not to reject them in advance of officist pronatincements.

self-confidence

171

So far there is not much to be sald in criticism of the punphlet. PAMPHLET with experience leaves me in little except that the welltra may title Atomic At doubt that the conclusions set have shown undue haste and tack: Can Britain be forth in the pamphict will be unjustified

found wide of the mark in a putting forward their

own views Defended? has just been number of important respects. at this juncture. issued by the Association of

destructive power of Scientific Workers. It is atomic weapons is, of course. infinitely creater than of those anonymous, except for

with which we have hitherto foreword by Prufessor had to deal. M. S. Blackett, FRS.

On the other In the first part of the weapons

hand, such are very costly and pamphlet experience of are, and seem always likely to atomic bombs in Japan and continue to be, in strictly limited Bikini is summarised. The supply.

P.

How To Write Best-Sellers

By VIRGINIA

THERE are

T

today. An

never receive

GRAHAM

published Is also an attractive pro- enormous position (especially, of

number of books which course, if one is a waitress).

attention It is pleasant to think such.

things still occur and to know that wealth, beauty, fame and heaps of passion- te kisses may, even now. be sweeping round the cur

from the critics,

They are not, in the nur rowest sense of the word, literature, for most of them,

to be frank, are extremely er in a Rolls. badly written and slip hap- pily into the category of

Love must be as one knows

Tripe. Nevertheless they itinarticulate,

sell in millions.

affection-

ate, even brutal: or else it. must be as fragrantly per- fumed, as chivalrous and A young

It is no good arguing an unlikely with facts. These books girl's dream. seli. And they sell because

FLA

they are the perfect answer Anything midway, any prob to the Englishman's innate inca into the motives or im- yearning to be cerebrally pulses of love. we English do inert whenever possible. not like at all. We made up our For we English have never minds ages ago about love as did cared for thinking. It is not we also about religion, foreign- an exercise wo admire.

NOT all readers, however,

or% and other controversial subjects, and our minds don't want to be disturbed. This should be the pot boller's motto: DO NOT DISTURB.

are obvious escapista. Although there is a cate- gory which likes vicarious- ly to live the lives of out- TAKING

of-this-world romantics, there in a large solid body of people who like to rend about themselves.

from

at random a plic of luridly wrapped romances. I can easily anti- cipate, therefore, 口 buge success for Dorian Lee's latest

("Lover Come Home")--her

inst book run into six editions For the inillions who es- for the has cleverly combined cape via the printed word both the exolle and the familiar, into a glorious world where the East and the West. Chanel-scented duchesses

are Vrlang.

bamboo wand und

3

are swept into the arms of Her heroines Spanish gigolos on moonlit Balinese Temple dancer when in terraces, at Cannes, there "slim as a are millions who prefer lovely an reading about Ivy standing Joannu, who is in the fish queue.

English girl.

B

blossom." and

a nler, tweedy

The hero, Richard Maliory- "There!" cry the first unbelievably enough, there In batch, but for appalling also a Freddie Carruthers and e bad luck, go I!" And Robert Cardew in the cast- "There murmur the second marrics the Balinese girl and batch with a comfortable brings her back to England to

live with his mother. sigh, "am IT"

I reel bound to adopt a very different attitude towards the

So on the one hand you have later parts of the pamphlet, an

To be successful with interpreted Ly Professor

the friendly dish-washing. Binckett's commentary in his attitude. The obvious fact that the musses, in fact, it is all

for an au-

the village gossip, the garden in foreword. I find it indeed dim- in relation to such a potestia only necessary

the rain, crosswords, the radio cult to observe becoming enemy British diplomacy would thor to arrange matters in and the vicar, and on the other restraint in commenting.

in all matters be impotent zeem: such 2 fashion that his

little the mysterious East, the to have eluded hint.

soap-alone image with emerald 'INEVITABLE' Inconsequently, however, as render can identify himself

Becins to me, the Professor goes with one of the characters, eyes stuffed under the pillow, material has been taken Moreover, to give "value,"

TAVING concluded wrongly on to suggest that, having pros- In order to do this he must from

well-known public the bombs would have to be H

trated ourselves, WO as I would maintain--that fre

chould

either be outrageously im- sources and calls for no placed with great accuracy—no

contribute little proceed to a renewed effort in

aginative or simple, as easy matter in the free of an fence, can comment.

active defence.

or nothing, and ignoring the cure an effective

with Soviet Russia on the muffin. Pensive he must not cbvious There follows an appreciation

consideration that control of atomle

choose He cherry.

can

between of the civil defence problem in I should expect to and in the power to retaliate effectively

hould be cumstances we when it may in practice be of far greates relation to utomle warfare. It is, I official appreciation,

Identifying yourself with think, unfortunate that the becomes available, strong sup- value than measures of defence. moment by friend or potential The good English family, Vriang "clad in a near-trans- euthors should have rushed into port for the view that Civil active or passive, however these mo print without waiting for the Defence of the kind evolved to may be evaluated, the professur foe is a query that has not, up-hard-working, unemotional, parent garment of some gauzy

parently, presented itself to the uunt-ridden and sink-bound, black chidon minds of Professor Blackett or

PROFESSOR

BLACKETT:

"Adequate defence at the United Kingdom against

attack

trom

słomic launched Bearby bases

tho on Continent is

quite Impractic ablo. It only on economic grounds."

SIR JOHN ANDERSON:

**The Prales101 suggests that, having prostrated ourselves. w should Brocond renewed

to

effort to

SDCUPS

are aftactive agreement with Soviet Russia.

Why in such

who think like him.

agreement

bc.

10 for n

1

*

with

sprigged with those, wheever they may be is always nice to read about fold" whose hair hangs "loose because it is always nice and lustrous in a cloud about to see oneself in print and, her neck and face;" or particularly, to find one is Joanna who has "silm, gallant understood and slightly shoulders," cherished.

UNPRODUCTIVE

IT is no doubt true that the

efforts so far made to secure. international ogreement through the Atomic Energy Commission of the United Nations Organiss- tion in New York have proved unproductive. That does not mean, however, that they should not be renewed or that r fresh approach should not be

Faught.

I for one have always thought that the SLIC nuthoritative pronouncement combat the forms of attack expe- plunges into a field in which the it unfortunate which His Majesty's Govern- rienced in the Inst war could be attainments of scientifle workers, should have been complicated n' ment will presumably issue in adapted with relatively little however eminent, are in them the outset by the introduction of due course da n result of the expense to give a comparable selves of no account. researches und investigations degree of protection against tho

lat are known to have been atom bomb. under way.

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In effect he says, although he ownership, obnoxious as that tioes not put it to bluntly, that conception must be to any mind the only advice he can give to obsessed by decirines of nationa In particular, given an effec- the British people is to accept sovereignty. The delay In Issuing such a

tive warning system the risks the

all means let us all try inevitable pronouncement is perhaps regret connected with radiation, which once and for all that they are pain, but let us make our de table, but the subject is wide что a distinctive feature of and complex and the Govern atomic warfare, can probably be cuemy

powerless in the face of any claration from strength and not

able and willlog to from weakness. ment have, obviously, been reduced to very small dimen- Jaunch on alomie attack.

Thare who are disposed to be anxious to avoid the sort of slons, while the case for and blunder into which the writers antinst deep shelters

His actual words are "I think critical of the failure of th will. I the arguments presented make efforts so far made should, how- of the present pumphlet will, think, be found to be not materi- inescapable the conclusion that ever, devote more attention tim have no doub!, be found in ally have fallen when the results of for taking account of the atoms Kingdom against atomic attack to give to the obstacle which o changed by the necessity adequate defence of the United they have hitherto been dispored official Investigations have bomb.

offers to the launched from nearby bases on closed frontier been made available,

The effects of radionetive con- the Continent is quite impractic crtablishment of the mutual con- tamination whether of earth, able if only aft economic Acience essential to the entisine-

lory solution of the problem of buildings or NO longer have any official almost certainly much exa- He has not apparently thought International control.

connection with the depart-gerated in respect of both Inten- it worth while to examine the world Copyright Reserved-London ments concerned; but my past sity and duration.

winter implications of this

Express Service).

COSTLY

NANCY

Underground Warning

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are grounds.".

434

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By Ernie Bushmiller

and is like the English countryside, “strong and enduring but with an inner to burst into multi-millionaire warmth ready who marries the waitress blossom at the first touch of

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POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

"I only hope, Muriel, that the experience of those unfor- tunate footballers in Bogota wl encourage some of us to think a little more about the side and a litle less about

sunshine."

The thoughts with which this book is burdened are not pro- found and

We con cheerfully recognise them as our own. So eur.desire to know what hap- pens in the end-3 very real desire-is not distracted by mental disturbances of nny kind.

raph

We do not worry in the lenst about style, for we have never been interested in the turn of a phrase or the balance of a para- We just read smoothly en, relaxed as babies, and when we have finished we will pick up a novel by Simon Dare and then a novel by Alexandra Dick, and not one cell of our poor tired old brains will ques- tion anything, answer anything. learn anything, note anything or, after Ave

minutes, remember anything.

Wasting our

Well,

time? what's reading for anyway? (World Copyright Reserved-London Express Service).

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