SITTING ON IT?

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25276, 30 August 1947, Page 8

SITTING ON IT?

(By WHIM WHAM) A' new stage in the 14 months’ search for an international atomic control was reached to-day, when seven nations at a meeting of the control committee of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission announced their support of specific detailed proposals for the actual operation of a global security agency- They were the United States, Britain, Australia, Canada, France, China, and Brazil. . . . Still to be heard from, however, is Russia, which refused to participate in the writing of the papers because they were based on Mr Bernard Baruch’s plan.— News item from New York. There was no Time to waste, The Sands were running out, Only a Fool would doubt The frantic Need of Haste. ' The Odds appeared titanic. The Prospect no less dreadful The Public had its Head full Of scientific Panic. The Powers got down to work, The Commentators cackled— The Job was being tackled That Nobody dared shirk. The. Atom versus Man! The Bomb,must be abolished! The World will be demolished If No-one has a Plan! But That was long ago. No Plan has come to Birth, And Man upon the Earth Still scuttles To and Fro. His xrip io Kingdom Come Awaits that awful Battle, When Tweedle-dee’s new Rattle Gets round to Tweedie-dum. For That’s the Way with us. To think Ourselves enlightened When only badly frightened— The Fuss is merely Fuss!