Cosmic Peril

Such is the sinister cunning of the Heathen Chinee that they may not even scruple at militarising space or stealing the Great American Moon. A fundraising effort to that effect has been delivered by the administrator of the US space programme, who warned that the Heathen Chinee might discover resources and claim them for their own, rather than merely planting flags and taking giant leaps for all mankind. Besides appropriating for their own twisted purposes John F Kennedy's goal of putting people on the moon within the decade, the Heathen Chinee have behaved in a most un-American manner with regard to the South China Sea, establishing military bases with hardly even a hint of the democratising and peacekeeping intent shown by the World Cop from Cuba to Cambodia. Should so enigmatic and treacherous a culture be permitted to spread from the Spratly Islands into space, the consequences might indeed be disastrous.