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...Lakehurst, N.J., last week Captain Marion H. Eppes, commander of the naval air station, received orders to suspend the U.S. Navy's blimp program. By next December, all but two of the Navy blimps still in service-on shore patrol and early-warning defense missions-will be deflated and folded away; within another few months, the last of the Navy's "bloopy bags" will disappear from the skies. And so will end an often disastrous, but sometimes glorious saga of the nation's military history...
...bombers hope that by giving up the bomb, Britain would be spared in case of war. Others argue that even surrender is preferable to extinction ("I would rather be Red than dead"). The Manchester Guardian's David Marquand has called the ban-the-bombers "the new blimps." "The nationalism of Aldermaston," wrote Marquand, "is uncannily like that of Colonel Blimp. One of the main unilateralist arguments is that if Britain ceased to rely on nuclear weapons, other countries would be obliged to follow suit. That argument could only take root in a country which has not yet realized...
...little pip-pipsqueak, up from dreary digs, who would dearly love to be accepted as an old-school-tiehard, but inevitably smacks more of the pub than the club; and since the war he has done an admirable succession of non-U turns as a sort of half-inflated Blimp...
...first glance, the two bombs appeared to be nothing special. One looked like a blunt-nosed torpedo; the other had the shape of a bulky, overweight blimp. So why, until last week, had the State Department suppressed all pictures of them for 15 secretive years...
...proves once again that French Novelist Boulle owes his fictional allegiance to a one-track mmcl-his own. His only weapon is irony; his heroes seem forever doomed to self-deceit, to rationalizing their weaknesses until they seem like virtues. In The Bridge over the River Kivai, a Colonel Blimp hurt his own, his men's and his nation's cause by raising boneheadedness to the level of character. In Face of a Hero, a lawyer transformed personal cowardice into a basis for public esteem. In the present book, a Free French intelligence agent turns traitor...