1957-05-18 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1957.

Truman Speaks On H-Bomb

“Britain's tests must go on."

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From RENE MacCOLL: Washington

[ARRY S, TRUMAN, former President of the United States, told me in a personal interview he feels strongly that all the H-bomb tests planned by Britain should "certainly go on-should go on

alf the time.”

Ho Bald thin vehemently. But he spoke, too, of his fervent hope that, eventually, atomic andi nuclear power would be used only for peaceful purposes in a world at peace,

Mr Truman (13) also told me ho is using all his influence in a behind-the-scenes attempt to Tepair the fabric of the Anglo- American aillance, badly damaged since Suez,

He received me in his third- flour suite in Washington' Mayflower Hotel

His grin

11 was a most unusual honour

to be recevled by the former

MacCOLL

stay right in there until the dictator is stop- ped."

can

Next question-what did Mr Truman think of Mr John Fuster Dulles's recent blg foreign affairs speech in which he Hilked about the eventual

detaching of the satelito nations from the Soviet Union?

His warning

Mr Truman;' "Look, unless the

Wost is ready to net when the time

媳 combe us

in

Hungary-it is far. better to leave that sort of thing unsaid.”

It was as I rose and thook hands

this with

remarkable man, so full of courage

BOHI

"Mr Presi- dent,"

} said tough-mindedness and warmth, (former Ameri- that he said: "Picaso be careful Presidents what you write. 1 am so very Invariably

get things back into tuin their shape-back to where there is former title as

the old mutual trust between

anxious

Д courtesy). America and Britain.

"not long ago

"That is what I am working

you wroto Of for-and hard, the necessity of the West keep ing its guard Tup' in the face

of Soviet 'carrot I?

"But must not," he added with a Anal twinkle, "seem to be telling either your Govern- ment or mine what to do, must

had slick tag- After all, I am just a private

real individual."

President. "You know," sald ties. Do you feel there's Mr Truman, "I don't often give danger that the West will lower an interview like this-you're in a class by yourself now!" lourd in dealing with

Soviets

icaned back and gave that brond gonial grin oď hla

I started of by asking Mr Truman if he considers that British prestige lwy bren për- manently damaged by the Suez flasco, la ince became grave,

"No sir" he said with con- viction. "I consider that Britain's prestige has not been permanently damaged, "Britain has been through many crises and troubles and who has always come through just as she said she would.

certainly

“Where would the rest of us have been it you hadn't stond firm

the

"Well," he said gravely, "you know there's certainly

historical backing for, just that, "Britain does the same thing 6. She's nine in the crisis, but when the grisly is over why 's all through and forgotten until: the next one comes along,"

"Mr President," I said, "I remember you used to tell us in the old days that you were an optimist. Are you still one?"

The Truman Jav jutted. His eyes gleaned with the old-time fire. "You have got to be an optimist," he drawled in his 1940 You fought rich, Missouri voice, Hitler to a finish-you dia the wise you might just same with Napoleon., Britain fold right up and "quit,"

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CHICAGO, TUESDAY :-

FORTHCOMING

EPEN

STATE BANQUET

A HÓBEL PRIZE-WINNING CHEMIST, DR. LINUS PAULING, PREDIOTED

IN CHICAGO THAT AT LEAST 1,000 PEOPLE WILL BE KILLED IF BRITAIN

GOES THROUGH WITH HER PROPOSED CHRISTMAS ISLAND H-BOMB. TESTS.

ERE it comes again. Read it above--this monstrous charge by

a top-ranking scientist that Britain coolty risked the lives" of 1,000 innocent people by testing H-bomb.

an

Fortunately this charge can be ignored, for though brilliant in the laboratory, [Dr Linus Pauling is fatuous in politics. (The U.S. Government had to refuss kim permission to leave the country for many months.) But why did Britam's pro- posal to explode un H-bomb in un entirely uninhabited part of the Pacific provoke such hysterical and sustained opposi- tion throughout the world?

I will tell you, Because through a peculiar set of circumstancos

H-tests

our

provide those who hate or envy us with an extraordin- ary opportunity to hurt us. where it will hurt most,

A promise

Nonsense!

YET HOW CAN THE PEOPLE OF BRITAIN BE CONVINCED THAT

IT'S THEIR

STANDARD OF

LIFE NOW

Those

THE Government's bold pro- facts of

grammic for stemming today.

Indation and getting the 'mation.

by

CHAPMAN

PINCHER

&

WHICH IS AT STAKE!

OR. LINUS PAULING.

MENTI EATING EDEN'S 'WORDS en Casserole Vol au vent OF SWALLOWING || EDEN'S PROMISES DEFECAT SOUR CRAPES WINS COCA COLA '67

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"BACK- WHERE I STARTED" Hollywood. YTHEN who was the wife of a big movie star, this woman lived in Beverly Hills. But not every story

in Hollywood is a happy one about success, and to Tita Purdom her four years in movietown have been Bad.

She and Edmund Purdom: ar- rived here from London to live In a garage while he looked for beling jobs. It was an exciting story when the garage-dweller was signed by MGM in 1953 for such big films as "The Student Prince."

After studio and personal difficulties, Purdom left Holly- wood and now is trying to re- build his career—with a new bride.

issue there is Bertram Russell

But back in Hollywood his who opposes the test on moral grounds. There Is Dr Albert ex-wife said wearily, "I've had Schweitzer who having deli- nothing but $1,100 from him in erately sealed himself off from a year. I expect nothing for the realities of politics ronds up myself, but his two children ** a cry from the African swamps

After being evicted from two that the H-test must be banned apartments for not paying the on medical grounds,

rent, Tiia is living in a 300-a- month three-room apartment Among the alom scientists, with her daughters, cged 2 and inany of whom have a strong | 4;" Her dector And Norma gull complex for the part they Shearer, "who has been won- played

developing the derful," gave her odd pieces of Hiroshimu atom bomb, there furniture, a stove and refrigera- are two schools of dissenters.

"My American friends have Some, like Dr Pauling and bem very kind to me," smiled Polish-bom Professor Joseph Tita. "Jan Sterling gave me a Rotblat of St Bartholomew's dress. Thanks to my friends, we Hospital, warn of radioactivė

have food.". ported by eminent experts ad- both children

in

tor.

are the ineccapable more economic damage to nationalism among ignorant dangers to a degree not sup- Her doctor British economic Ale the nation than 1,000 fomented people.

Without the H-Bomb there

back lo prosperity is based on can be no end to conscription massive cuts in detence-cuts an

enci which the nation taxation this needs that will reduce

not only 10 reduce year and more so in the years

spending but to end ahead.

shortage Utot Umitg

These

strikes.

Tycoons?

radioactive

Dr Herbert Evalt, the consistently leader

pro Russian

ban-the-British-homb

to

and says Tita "definitely show vising the 'Government; ・・

signs of malnutrition, Others, like Professor Christo- Tita, an actress, tried a night- of the Australian Le plier Powell of Bristol and Pro-club act for a whio and works of Paris, Dccasionally in TV. on the wing opposition,

surprised 19or Joliot Curie, MUCIL more than real fear of nobody when he jumped on the speak on behalf of the World Alfred Hitchcock and Lorelta

band- Federation of Scientific Workers, Young shows, full-out sechis

"It hasn't been enough un organisation so riddled with to be involved in the Japanese wagen,

Communists that it has been live on," she said. "I've tried to renction.

get other jobs. I've been to de- There is no need to wonder forbidden to meet in Britain.

partment stores but when they Who was to finance the fleet of why the Socialist supporters of.

Finally, there are the pacifists, hear my name-I can't type, but "suicide" ships The Japs Mr Ancurin Bevan are mani-

weapons of every | I've tried to find work as a file posed to

and dedicated to the clerk..

"Why doesn't Edmund work so he can support our children? He would make a very good tram driver. Now I hear he's leaving the country and I never will be able to reach him legal- ly to force him to pay."

Recently Tita spent the night in zool for five overdue traile tickets on ear she long ago jest. The Judge det her off with small fine after she explained four of the tickels were her ex-husband's. She goes to court next month on a $50 milk bili she claims was incurred while they were married.

cuts cannot be made manpower Entess Britalu possess the few our expor drive. And rosy bopes

uf nuch

1b.x greater H-bombs which are to replace

reuet in the next two years must fade, the masses of conventional arms

Το put this

more per- and men which have hitherto

sonnal Lerms the

who formed the main defences,

And the H-bomb cannot be exploded the H-bomb, far threatened to send into the dan pulating the H-test issue to stockpiled unti it has been from being monsters Intont ger Jiva? Could L be Jap weaken Mr Hugh Gaitskell's and

principle that it is always belwr tested and proved to work, on poisoning your great-grand- business tycoons already facing hold on the party leadership. Lo live on your knees than die

In short, without the test off children with radioactive fumes

Britain in the export markets?

Of course, not all the opposi- on your feet. Chrismas Islamt in the Pacific may be the means of keeping

tion is deliberately political. the Government's plans to cut your son out of uniform and

Why did Mr Nehru choose There are always a few highly dolence by £122 million could enabling you to afford a car and

ilis critical time to side with vocal individuals who seize 101 be translated into action. run it.

the Chinese Communists in call- such an opportunity to give ing for an end to atom tests publicity to their own fancital Prolending that Asia is seriously fears and fads. threatened by radioactive inlj- out from a British bomb is an effective

Without this action Chancellor In this light it is clear why Peter Thomaycroft cannot fulfil the Communists cash in on op- his promises to relieve the tax position to Christmas Island test burden by 100 million this whereVET

they

Suc- year,

could have indicled

0053

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

WHAT ARE

THEY

GOING

TODO}

PUT US IN A SPACE SHIP-LET US CIRCLE THE EARTH FOR THE REST OF OUR

LIVES!

LET THEM TRY TO MAKE UST

WE CAN'T FIGHT THEM, LOTHAR. THEY'VE GOT POWER WE CANT

EVEN PREAM CF!

DE

Woe, woe

Fall there people only the Communists have a realistle, Thus making common cause even if repellent alternative to way of fomenting with the Communists on this possession of the H-bomb.

OUR PEOPLE-ARE DROPPING LIKE FLIES THE GIRL FROM THE PAST--IS PROJECTING COLD SEAMS! SHE'G (UGA) BNEEZINGY

By Lee Falk and Phil Davl

GET THEM

OFF THE

EARTH

FASTI

IT'LL TAKE DAYS TO BUILD A SHIP! WE'LL ALL BE DESTROYED

BY THEN!

There's More than Magic in

CADBURY'S

It is Perfection

Tita looked at gold brocade drapes on her living roora win- dows, an incongruous touch in the modest apartment,

"That's all I have loft from sho our Boverly Hills bemIC," said, "When Edmund started in movies it was no wonderful. The trogedy of it all is that nothing Is left-nothing!

1

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"The cycle is complete. began life in America In garage and now I'm. virtually back where I started"

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