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a mistake?'-five key men give views

Washington, Aug. §.

juvenile delinquency

increasing

The magazine U.S. News and World Report asked in its cover story today: everywhere

"Was A-bomb on Japan a mistake."

and War

London, Aug. 8. Crime and delinquency are increasing all over the world, especially among juveniles, # top U.N. official warned today.

It printed a copyright artice have kept the Soviet Union dropped on Hiroshima based on recent interviews with from getting into the Pacific Nagasaki ended a Pacific five, men who were involved in War for a share of loot in the that had cost the world nearly the secret decision to drug rn Far East.

1,500,000 Ilves, with the fear- atomic bomb on Hiroshima on "Dr Szilard, in retrospect, that millions more would, yet be August 6, 1945 and on Nagasaki | gays that he and others who lost in an invasion of the three days later.

had misgivings on the bombs Japanese home islands. The men interviewed wert: in 1945 should have preased "The bombs, however, did not Mr James F. Byrnes, then for a negotiated surrender, end arguments over their use," President Truman's personal instead of a demonstration or it said, "The disclosures now Professor Manuel Lopez Rey representative and soon tu he-warning, as an alternative to made by men who were in warned the second U.N. con

of State, who the come Secretary

on atomic bomb or a costly volved in the decisions of sum-gress the prevention of said he did not think it was invasion of Japan"

mer, 1945, will add to those crime and the treatment of of the worldwide wing to use the first quclear

The magazine saldi It was arguments for years to come."-offenders

crime problem. weapons against Hiroshima sad widely conceded that the bombs Reuter. Nagasaki,

Mr Lewis L. Strauss, then a navy officer and later Chair- man of the Atomic Energy Commission, who' had double about the use of the bomb.

Two key seientists. Dr Lu Szilard and Dr Edward Teller, who described their mis- givings about the dropping of the bombs.

Mr Ralph

A. Bard then Under-Secretary of the Navy, who said the magazine. was the only "decision maker" to oppose unrestricted use of the bomb.

"As these men look back- ward," the article said. "there i is broad agreement among them

on these points:

ALREADY BEATEN

"At the time the bomb was dropped. Japan was already benten.

Whether or not the bomb was used, it could not have been kept a secret. Soviel sples had gained some knowledge of it. But the destruction DI Hiroshima and Nagasaki prob. ably hastened Soviet research and espionage.

"As a result, had the bombs not been dropped pressure to develop the hydrogen bomb might have been less. And without the hydrogen warhead. the missile age and space ex- ploration would have been delayed.

"Out of it all, these men feel, would have emerged a world somewhat different from that which today and Soviet Russia and the U.S. running neck and neck in missiles and space competi tion."

The article said Mr Byrnes shared the feeling of nearly every other "decision maker that the US. had no alternative, to dropping the bomb, in light ef knowledge then available. He doubted that a promise to Japan to keep the emperor on his throne would have brought it in surrender much more quickly than it did.

SOVIET UNION "Against that viewpoint, Mr Strauss and Dr Teller feel that

Charged with adultery

Playboy freed

after

arrest

Mexico City, Aug. 8.

Brazil's internationally-known playboy, Francisco "Baby" Pignatari, was released from police custody today offer having been held overnight on charges of adul- tery with 20-year-old Princess Ira von Furstenberg de Hohenlohe brought by her estranged husband, Prince Alfonso Hohenlohe.

The 10-year-old Pignatari was. Arrested on Sunday morning in a pre-dawn raid on the deluxe hotel suite of the 20-year-old Talian-born Princess

Police said they found him Ira's apartment clad in trousers and shirtsleeves,

in

Another part

The princess herself and her two children, for whose custody she is fighting were in another part of the suite,

Arrested with Fignatari were several people described as his bodyguard and employees of the hotel. The hotel employees. the night desk clerk and the chief hotel detective,

were

·released along with the Brazilian millionaire.

However, five of those sald to have been Iv Pignatari's employ were held on charges of illegal possession of wea- pons and resistance to the Authorfiles.

I can

do the

job, says Home

London, Aug. 8. Lord Home, in his first tele- vision interview since be- coming Britain's Foreign Secretary a fortnight ago, said tonight that if he had not thought he could do the job he would not have accepted it.

"I think one would have to have the hide of a rhinoceros," he declared if one was not the Among those held was one affected

temporarily by American, Norman Placey, 40, criticism. who

called himself "a friend of the family" but who ap- peared to be the chief of the Brazilian bodyguard.

such a concession would have At the time of the arrests,

borne fruit," the magazine police seizeŃ a quantity of said. "Mr Bard holds that small arms and other weapons. negotiated surrender also could —-AP.

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A British Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1.Stand or three legs (6).

4 Where they boss (5),

7 Undesirable hanger-on (8).

8 Goes on grazing (8).

9 Describes oval hygiene (8).·

11 Itit batamenì"who" run

'them (7).

13 Keep out (7).

15 Remains of bombing? (8).

18 Sheets in shop windows,

maybe)

19 Cosh-boy, for example (8)

20: How things are going' (5). 21 May have to be made up

DOWN

1 Not showing mauch

thusiasm (5).

2 Machinery, put in (5).

barrack

3 Bored on

squaret (7).

the

4 Have a biay towards (6).

5 Mine host at Lord'st (8).

6 Four-footed Arabs, perhaps

(8):

10 Is Satan such a sobriquet?

(8).

1 Bird with a scarlet head?

(9).

19 Send out from a coastal

town? (8),

14 Like the Barefoot Contessa!

(B),

18 Not very colourful fabric

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"One point the critics missed is the importance of the position of Commonwealth Secretary in the Government these days.

"My job for five years has been to explain every aspect of United Kingdom foreign and de- fence policies to the Curmmon- wealth countries."

PRESUMPTUOUS

Lord Home said that it would be presumptuous for him to say that he had come to the Foreign Office with any fresh ideas for Eritish foreign policy.

But I have some very clear ones," he said. "I know that ne Russian or Communist propa- ganda will shake my belief in the American alliance as it is formalised in Nato"

"I

Asked if he thought the Russians had any serious inten- tion of negotiating with the West, Lord Home said, sincerely hope they have."

"Even for a country of Russia's power and strength it would be an advantage to come

He addressed the opening. session of the congross in his capacity as representative of Secretary General Dag Ham- marskjold. Eight hundred delo- gates from 57 countries were present,

He said that "in spite of every effort made, crime and delin- quency are, with very few ex- ceptions, increasing all over the world...

GANGS

Of juvenile delinquency he said "insterd of decreasing, i is gaining more and more ground. in many countries. including some of the more highly de- veloped ones."

A special committee met this afternoon to discuss the juvenile delinquency problem. It studied detailed reporis prepared by Judge Wolf Middendorf of West Germany and the secretarial.

Both repots colnaided with the verdict of Lopez Rey that

crime problem among juveniles was serious.

the

The Middendorf report found that "the most important new type of juvenile delinquency, found in nearly all parts of the world, is the formation of. juvenile gangs which commit delinquent acts." I said this was most pronounced in the U.S.A

Russia sent a delegation to the meeting The question of juvenile delinquency in Russia did not come up in the reports."

-UPI.

Concentration

camp victim

charged

Buenos Aires, Aur. 8.

A former Internee in a Nazi pri- sun camp was taken into custody by Buenos Aires police today and charged with being implicated in the theft $700,000 fa travellers cheques from the First Na tional City Bank of New York.

of

Police said they arrested a man who identified himself as Israel Korngol, a Pole, said to have been in the Dachau Con- centration camp from 1039 to 1945.

Police said Korngol, 36, had $120,000 in cash with him when he was captured.

The First National City Bank reported last February that a $700,000 shipment of travellers cheques sent to its branch in Manitovideo for use there and

to the conference table and in the bank's branch in genuinely seek a, measure disarmament.”—Reuter.

of Asuncion, Paraguay, had not

arrived.-AP.

French settlers

outraged by slaying of girl

Orleansville, Aug. 8. Hundreds of angry settlers turned out today for the funeral of an eight-year-old French girl, victim of the stepped-up Moslem terror wave aimed at wrecking President Charles de Gaulle's peace drive in Algeria.

This eastern Algerian city was outraged by the killing of little Elizabeth Motykset Around her gravo today French settlers clenched their fists,

Elizabeth was shot down by eight pistol bullets Bred through an open wlotow at one am on Bunday as she went to warn her parents about strener noises.

ses outside the bully pill

Police, believed two terre ware involved, in the boodf

but so far army search patrols have found no trace of them.

The slaying pointed up the new drive of the Moslem Na- tional Liberation Front (FLN) to fan the spirit of hate in Algeria.

The terror drive was directed with equal fergelts?. against isolated Européens and Molema who showed signs of going glong with De Gaulle's call for a new Moslern-Eirogdin "fraternity" Inta land fortassed by years of Wat--UPL

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