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Claim By Atomic Scientist Staving Off Third Global War
Chicago, Dec. 2.
Dr Arthur II. Compton, who directed the laboratory where, the atomic age came into being 10 years ago, satd today that nuclear weapons had
third i strved off global war and disaster for the entire world.
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Dr Compien, now Chancellor of Washington University. spoke at ceremonies markbig the 10th anniversary of the world's frat : ruitine
nuclear chain reaction.
It was on Dectmber 2, 1012, that the noted physicist. Enrico Fermi, gave the signal that put the Orst nuclear pile
operation.
The ceremonies
into
today were
held in the squash court beneath the University, of Chicago's Slagg Field where the historle event took place.
Dr Compton, work
who
directed in the improvised squash | cirt Jaboratory, said that the atomic bomb caved the lives of millions of Americans and
Japanese by shertening World
Wär
Since then, he said, it hadi created a balance of power in the post-war work.
of
A third world war had been held off that would have meant the lives of many more millions and disaster for the entire world.
"We who had the might atomic nucleus in our hand would have been traitors to mankind had we refused to build bombs and use them with tempered blows," he added.
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"We should at present falling our evident duty if we did not give free men the means of maintaining their freedom," United Press.
Immediate Aid For
South Korea
United Nations, Dec, 2. A United Nations agency to-
details of day announced $70,000,000 programme for an
immediate and positive con-
the
tribution towards meeting
of the most pressing needs Korean people before hostilities end.
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In Holland
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- CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1952.1