THE WAKING POINT

this is what we face after six years of so-called peace in the East Red China pushes to the shores of the Pacific these are the sights they see at the frontiers of Hong Kong the refugees streaming from the chained world to the free to the northward in Korea the two worlds theirs and ours have already clashed in open combat and these victims of the struggle to contain the March of communism will they be the last or the first look to Berlin the meeting place of East and West on our European doorstep and read the ominous signs riot and terror demonstration and disorder the conquest of the minds of the rising generation if these are the forces deployed today who can tell what might be launched tomorrow can we be sure tension and mistrust so deeply stirred can be dispelled by peaceful means I Cecile as it go oh it's not young anybody think I was trying to touch him for five are what their recruits only three how about you me yes you after all you'll know man to it backwards from last time you know just let up be one along the London run then you get on three nights a week now kind of think of the wife and kids you know that's just what you would be doing if the balloon goes up very funny we make when laughter well talk it over with him did you change your mind let me know by the way I'm in charge of your slate please this digna yeah they told me Julian good afternoon madam well I tell you something about the welfare side of civil defense well I haven't much time at the moment this won't take a moment madam if you wouldn't mind just stepping this way yeah a bit too much to my liking suppose the time out see if they still work Margie come away from that sand pit if Jimmy's will you bring him to told you not to play there before all right Jimmy that was daddy on his way home he says we mustn't play yeah yes we're really dude come on gang yes but why should blokes like Bob do all the dirty work you can give up an evening week so can I now look Joe I've had enough it's bad enough during the war when you had to do it night after night we did have an evening off I was up to my elbows in nappies babies bottles and I don't know what else there was no end to it now in the kids our old room we could enjoy an evening off you want to stick a tin hat on your head again honestly you make me tired really you do mm-hmm somebody's gonna do the job why'd it have to be you I'm blaming for trying to be prepared this time Oh things don't look too rosy do they well I thought what is enough we're not thinking about that and if there's gonna be another wall there's nothing we can do to stop it goodness sake let's enjoy what time we have left I know you still won't have done much good last time if everybody's stuck buried in the sands with it Claudia enjoy the film hmm I loved it I was most impressed with one of those small films you know the socks usually born me so this one was about the state of the world today and when I came out there was a recruiting campaign in the foyer and well it was that man Charles before was it happened I joined up you know I'm very glad I did hey Joe coming over Thanks anytime you want me roller it's around the back are you dressed up like that for oh my casual do this morning and right now I'm meant to be tucked in that bomb toast just along the roads I didn't know you'd on the civil defense no I haven't but when you're retired like me you'll find out you have a lot of time in your hands I promised Barbados I'd help a no-no cheerio see you later party yes ma'am oddly number four reporting for exercise sir nyah nyah Jill this house has been hit by a chi and one person is missing make your connaissance and carry on from that right you children must keep back I don't want you to get in the way Papa take hold it boys not ready it's my turn or idea right just tell me where he is and I'll soon have him out he's been an excellent scented my boys buried in the tunnel cocky Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy alright son that's here keep you breaking up we will either take every Bob makes semi-batch agree with you you shouldn't have come when I had to come did he all right Jimmy it's all right darling daddy I'll get you out Bob Fred come on here with me job you and to either stay that side we're working towards each other all right boy Lily with you easy boys no question where he is I think you're right watch the pit place bub Rigel hello good evening sir all set oh yes you already we'll be God in this batch and see straight ahead there's Dan Hopkins milk Roundsman he's talking to John as Foreman now we need everybody we can get to the knowledge of building well mr. mrs. Rankin one of them that's a friend of theirs Colonel Blake right over there in the corners an abyss capture so far Joe Mercer Pullman car attendant he was rescue men in the last fall he's talking to Sally Faulkner a commercial artist and John Mackenzie retired builders clock well they didn't I'm very glad indeed to see you here though I admit I could wish they'd been rather more of your no we all hope it isn't serious that the training are about to receive we'll never have to put into practice but there is one thing certain and that is that we've got to be prepared in the last war fire caused a great deal of damage and very heavy casualties in the next war the fire situation might well be a great deal worse because we should have to deal with the heat - you'll get Tomic bum one of the most potent of fire raisers we therefore have to consider the heat flash of the atomic bomb the small magnesium incendiary bomb the phosphorus bomb and the oil ah feet there take it easy lovely naughty good hi Joe break for ten minutes right everyone ten minutes Oh how's it going first-rate couldn't be better good-lookin I wanted to talk to you about that rescue vacancy it's sweet please have you asked your mother if you'd like the job no I thought perhaps you'd like to speak to me Rafael I'm gonna discuss to work with him Wow that Joe hate him anyone else hello Joe we've got a vacancy for a full-time rescue instructor sweet clothes if you mean you're going in a full cost one of the three Home Office schools power field or Timnath castle or easing world you public at weezing world it's New York now you've done very well in your basic training I know you're the man for the job and I'd be very glad if you'd apply for it I think you'd stand a very good chance of getting it but of course you realize that it we've been giving up your present position thanks for the tip mr. Lathem I know most of the details but would this be a steady job oh yes it'll be a long time before we're through with all our training would mean that I could be home or Quinn's always saying that life would be easier if I could get a job locally army man good man Joe I'm very glad to hear it will you please go into the second door on the right second door on the right in the last war of the wonderful spirit which pervaded your series a spirit which inspired rescue personnel to heroic deeds not in the heat and excitement of battle but in a cold and dispassionate realization that there were lives to be saved and not the least of your duties will be to develop and to foster that spirit in the new civil defense organization our objective is to secure in peacetime a fully trained and equipped several defense organization ready to go into action at short notice the atomic bomb is a very terrible weapon what everyone does not know is that we can get considerable protection against its effects from quite ordinary thing ordinary building different types of shelters all can play their part in giving us protection against the effects of an atomic bomb explosion watch it you're gonna get a please I'm sure today I have no you don't have to tell me you gotta be trained for this cow what about a game is new girl we cleaned up a plague down give me anymore Cheers uh-huh wait up wait up yes a manner you're holding everything up the bus is waiting ready to go to the station course isn't finished yet we're at war we didn't expect the declaration and we haven't got one get your kid together you ought to report back to your headquarters excuse me we just haven't got the staff to train all you people if only you had come when there was more time please sign that was emulated Joe it's been a nightmare they've come in the thousands yeah although we want them knowledge impossible to tell it's been like these ever since it started have you left him when your family's been evacuated Joe no good don't have to worry about them then in the reports on atom bombs well that's something anyway we've always expected this but who ever would have thought it'd be caught a second time so soon after the first clear the building all right everyone clear the building please as fast as you can come on Joe suppers almost finished it hasn't happened there's still time