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...directors' optimism was also based on some invigorating future prospects. Martin is busily turning out a wide range of products, including the B57 Canberra bomber, the Matador guided missile and the P5M flying boat for the Navy. In addition, Martin has the first high-speed jet Navy seaplane (the P6M) as well as a new Navy missile and a classified high-speed plane for which it just won a contract...
...went. In Darwin, he remarked that "I do not think we need have any worries about Communist China. Communist Chi na is too busy looking after its 600 million people. That's twelve times as many as I had to look after when I was Prime Minister." In Canberra, he assured a group of Australian M.P.s that "the whole Chinese people are out for peace," and declared that the Chinese leaders were "genuine idealists." ("Nehru has never gone as far as that," said one astonished Indian...
...crowded House of Representatives in Canberra, Prime Minister Robert Menzies proclaimed last week that Australia (pop. 7,500,000) would stand behind U.S. policy in Asia. "Armed aggression must be met by armed defensive power," said Menzies, "for this is something, and perhaps at present the only thing, that the materialist Communist dictators can and will understand . . . The time has come when we must present a common front backed by a common power...
Britain last week rolled out its first truly supersonic jet. Built by English Electric, maker of the Canberra twin-jet bomber, the new P. 1 is a stubby, delta-winged interceptor, with a double-barreled Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire power plant turning out a total of 20,000 Ibs. of thrust. All English Electric will say is that the plane can fly faster than sound in level flight, and that 20 have been ordered to short-cut the time lag between prototype and production models. At the news, most of Britain's newspapers went all out, claimed speeds...
...commission had become interested in O'Sullivan after Vladimir Petrov, a Russian embassy secretary in Canberra, surrendered to Australian authorities and began to talk (TIME, April 26). Petrov, an ex-colonel in the MVD, the Russian secret police, charged that O'Sullivan had been helpful to the MVD in Australia. Last week O'Sullivan's answer took Australian newsmen by surprise...