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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1946.

Those Who Know Most COMMENT

Are Most Afraid

TF WE ARE SERIOUS about

IF

wanting to keep the world from blowing apart in the strictly foreseeable future (and if we are not the sooner We book our padded cells the bet- ter), then it is truly high time we stopped dodging issues and avoiding reflections that hurt.

In our contemplation of the prospect before us, it is profit- able, I think, to dwell on the small things rather than the large ones.

I feel that the tank-crew man who smelled his friends frying alive in a red-hot Iron box has a keener appreciation of war than the statis- tician who knows to n fraction exactly how many people died that way, bo matter how solemn the statistician'a moralising "may be afterwards.

MUST THE WORLD BEGIN AGAIN?...

Chapter Two'

of the inquiry based on the researches of CHAPMAN PINCHER, expert on the new warfare; JOHN DEANE POTTER, who has spent the last year in Japan; JAMES CAMERON, the only British reporter at the Bikini experiments. The series is written

By James Cameron

13 Demonstration in an uninhabited

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locality.

No use in the Japanese war at

all..

5 Keeping the existence of tite

bomba secret.

More than half of them veled for No, 2. Biroshime was the objec- live chosen,

By "Candidus'

THAT is the answer to

the Russian Riddle? To most of us it appears Certainly the situation was dir- to be answerable. It has ferent then. But let us says Pin- become a mystery with a

cher, not be drowned in the teara

of scientists; let us concentrate again sinister shadow in the back- ground the shadow of another war.

un facts.

Now here is an odd thing. The only atom scientist Potter knows well one who had nothing to do with the Manhattan Project.

He is the lille Yashio Nishina, leading Japanese nuclear physicist the same unhappy, bewildered crea- ture who gruped his way the mortal dust of Hiroshima, among the blinded bables and the creatures grilled like, ash by the

roadside.

about

through

A

During the anguish and slaughter of World War II, people of all nations fighting against aggression felt that if victory only came to the forces of democracy and sanity, the world would at last come to an "Make no mistake about it." says There were dark-very dark- International Peace Agreement. Potter "Nishina knew, as much

his subject as uny Allied days when the courage of oven scientist until he was cut off from the optimists wavered. Was the rest of the world. His cyclo-Britain going under in her trons were up to date, but the Japs titanic struggle in Europe?

୯୭- From the report on the Interna-perimental bomb.

operation, nor space to build an ex-Could she withstand the vicious Honal Control of

onslaughts in her days issued in Match by the US State Atomic Energy

unpreparedness. Would help Department: "We believe that,

come in time? Not a nation in tion in the fields of atomic long as nations engage in competi-

Europe able to offer more than! the hazards of atomie war are very

energy."

moral and prayerful support. Britain held on, and the tremen- great.

dous productive power of the United States came to the rescue. The Beasta of Belsen and the Japanese hordes saw the writing on the wall.

hard for anyone who did not live promises any hope of adequate de-had not the money, scientific It does not really require hardihood to think of 100,000 people pense of an atomic arms

great through it to comprehend the

sus fence race. We

dying in one atomic moment in Hiroshima, because dying is,

afterlived in fear that Germany might all, not an unpleasant thing, if done capture the secret before we dit. in a moment

The Scientists

"In Washington we have learned a new fear. We are afraid of what politicians and diplomats with the atomic bomb.

will

do

I is only when it becomes long.

and painful, and stinking. And "If you, the people, tet things drift grotesque that it is dreadful, and we will cat fear. sleep fear, and when you think not of 100,000 but die in fear. The bomb 19 fused. of one. For example, of yourself, or The time is short." your child. Or, perhaps, of the anti-aircraft

Runners in John Her sey's awful anecdote, whose hat melted in their sockets and run down their checks.

soldiers

The theme of that song has been taken up, on in pretty well known by Pincher can quote them indefinitely. most of the experts and outhorities.

Albert Einstein: America' cular problem; one would

no lasting secret. What abolish armies. If they were

by nature tells one group of men she sclentists one' could reasonably will tell in time to another group. Scientists know no feld, which

wars were made by

they would not present any FROM

made

abolish universities; it would be n high price, but not too high.

But the professional

not

noldier does

#ladly disrupt his comfortable life by going to war, and the selen- tist known too much. The most

scared men in the world to-day are the atom-splitters.

The Little Cynics

T Bikini-which was notable by

ΑΤ

has

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And, indeed, any fool can see that, Let us

not be tog kind to the welentists. They have a tendency to Project themselves as reluctant tools of a relentless milltary: forced, as it at atom's-point to debase their owledge to barbarism.

In actual fact, a few weeks before scientists Hiroshima a poll of more than 150 working on the projeci was taken; they were asked to vote for one of five possibilities:-

All-out use of the bomb as the Army might see ft. Demonstration of the bomb on a military objective.

The Priest's Evidence:

Jemit who

Father Kletusorge was a Ger- 7628232

survived the bomb. His story is told in John ilersey's famous New Yorker re- port:

ta muccess in vulgarising a bit As Father Kleinsorge looked

ter subject to curious degree-the hrash ones, the sceptical ones,

ones who smiled when the

not crack the earth

dict

the

bomb

were

the small and ignorant people, the

little cynics. The ones who worried and saw that apparently ineffectual cataclysm with troubled eyes syere the men who knew more of nudear physics than is gained by reading the handouts.

Pincher will bear

me out; he knows the scientists better than

And,

to bear him out, he will! quote Professor Harold C. Urey, Nobel Prize winner, and one of America's top atomic men:

do.

"I am a frightened man. All the scientists I know are frightened,

"We who have lived the years in the shadow of the atomic bomb are well acquainted with

fear, It 15

were

The Shambles

course, when Nishina saw the cloud he knew that what he had always feared had happened; he knew it was the end, and the war was over. He was appalled as a scientist; when he got into that shambles he was sickened да A

man.

"Nishina sald to me: "I represent the defented, and my word does not matter: but it is the defeated who can tell the borror of this thing. I've no hatred because the bomb

พร used against us: only a great fear -not for Japan's future: the world's, defeated, have no place at the Peace Conference, he said, We haven't any right there. But I would like to tell them what I saw in Hiroshima"

"that

reason

or any other.

of

Russia remained the enigmn, and remains no to-day.

Some thought her declaration of war against Japan somewhat belated, but it must be admitted that she had little option in

action delaying against one of the common enemies. wonder whether Stalln sometimes remembers that had Japan taken the initiative, when the Germans were Mr Nishina will most ecithinly

nly at the gates of Stalingrad and Lenin- never get to the Pence Conference, grad, a very different story for that

might have been told to-day? I wonder personally Fre no reason why whether he remembers the Mur- he should; this problem acarcely mansk Base, through which poured needs now to be argued in technical thousands upon thousands of tons of Of 158 doctors in the city 85 terms, and in any event the scien- were already dead and most oftists have only a limited case. They the United States. I wonder whe- en war supplies, the gifts of Britain and the rest were wounded. Of 1,780 bleed no more easily than we nurses 1,654

do, ther he ever pauses to contemplate too dead or

and their nerves are a good deal less what would have happened to his badly hurt to work. In the big-

easily wrenched.

country had those vital supplies not gest hospital, that of the Red

been made available? Cross, only six doctors out of 30 were able to function, and only 10 nurses out of more than 200.

The people in the suffocating and cried for Dr Sasaki to hear: crowd inside the hospital wept "Sensell Doctor!" and the less When he had penetrated the ser

wounded bushes he saw there were about nusly 20 men, and

pulled at his sleeve and begged they were all in

him to come exactly the

to the aid of the nightmarish state: their

worse wounded. faces were

wholly burned, ir eye-sockets

Ted here and there in his hollow, y fluid from their melt-

stockinged feet, bewildered by ed cyys/ had

the numbers, staggered by ยนต down their

much raw flesh, Dr Sasok lost all cheeks.

sense of profession and stopped Their mouths were mere swol working as a skilful surgeon and len pusovered wounds which

stretchman; he became an they could not bear to enough to admit the spout of the daubing, winding, wiping

mechanically wiping. teapot.....

duub- ing, winding....

for his way he heard a voice ask from the underbrush: "Have you anything to drink?" He saw a uniform. Thinking there

Was

just one soldier he approached with water.

same

were

came and

THE MYSTERIOUS

WW

MR. MOLOTOV

Su

WHO is Molotov, where auto haul Rustic 1st of chess merda is precisely because Molotov

that so much mystery sur-to out of

rounds him?

to

If any man can be said have dominated the Pence Con- ference of Paris, as Metternich dominated the Congress of

Vienna, that man is Vyacheslav

Mihailovitch Molotov,

He was not populer,

into the position of first or nation of the world.

by

second and bla men believe SQ whole- heartedly in their way of life that we are finding to Gargantuan task io reconcile their aims with those of other peoples.

was

n

ALARIC JACOB FM the first Molotov

Stalinist, scarcely a Leninist, No Breat man ever had a more faithful servant. He made self-abnegation an art.

was not loved, but he was listened to. but he was respected. We had to admit that he did well by his side. For two and a half months watched him against a team too strong for him-the score as most always 15 votes against and he won from us that sneaking sym-berately applied himself to them, pathy on which the resourceful underdog may always count in

sacrificing in the process much of sporting community.

This stullering, unloved, unbend- Ing man has one quality the Eng Ish have always admired-charac- HIS HABITS

ter..

"colourful details" about him! are few.

THE

He wears 4 nightshirt, ente two boiled eggs for breakfast, never takes, exercise, always wears the stereotyped 'Rassinn, the

instead of buying better, obrond, is a good chess player, loves the

opera and kisses the band of the diva utter a good performance, does fuil jus- thee to n good dinner, and can be a surprisingly merry fellow

party.

He is devoted to his

at

red-haired wife,

daughter, but rately sees his

There is an idea

Many of the ntomic scientists me honest enough men, already some- what stricken by the fruits of their energy. But they are men; not all of them play harps.

The Children

the political acrobats in the No,

mkslern

diplomatie cuckooland are in no need of facts or figures to complicate their diama? arguments. Potter has a proposal:-

"They should be made to take a look

at the schools now on the edge of Hiroshima.

"The children who are left alive there are like characters out of dreadful fantasy.

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"Some of them have mis-shapen, livid faces, with one eye that stares vacantly. Some have stumps of innot walk properly and never will again because of their burns.

are

TALIN'S attitude to-day creates a very strong doubt in the minds of all thinking

that ht peoples either does not remember-or does not want to remember-the friendly and generous assistance rendered so unstintingly in the hour of his coun- try's greatest need.

At times during the world crisis, Russia revealed signs that she de- sired to make up for some of her past actions which had so affected her international standing. When she decreed thai religious rights should be re-established, the news had the greatest effect for good among millions of all races and re- ligions. After many years, she be came persona prata where previously the had been ostracised. She be rame one of the lg Five Nations" of the world-a leading member of The greatest

and

most

powerful com- mittee the world had ever known.

Where are some children in these hellish classrooms who scem per- fectly normal. Perhaps they normal; nobody can tell yet The A committee which could forbid the Japs have a great respect for learn- use of nrms in future international ing. They say hint the children of disagreements. A committee, which Hiroshima do not learn as quickly as would control an international force other Jap children. They think in the Interest of world peace. some will never learn properly, not

now,"

Stalin would have been welcomed And what about us? Shall we? ravaged country would have bene

in London or Washington, and his

NEXT SATURDAY: "There is NO defence."

rulers of Russia are a bunch of equilibrium of the capitalist world

filed Immeasurably had he ensured that Russia should be insolubly link- ed with those who at long last could control the destiny of the world. Truly a tremendous responsibility, but, of the same time, a tremendous

a sphere of Isolation for Russia into privilege, abroad that the, which she can retire the dia-

How Mr

Jean or

their

propor-

of

As for as the Paris Conference was concerned, it cannot be denied that Russia, and Russia alone, placed rond blocks in the path of peace, She has gathered about her an atmo- sphere of suspicion and mysterious isolation, and the man in the street can be her motive?

་

cynical

opportunists. Byrnes must wish that they were!

again reaches dangerous For then an

tions. American trade concessions here or

That, too, explains the polley there might induce them to shift

expansion, for the wider the sphere Course more

to his thing.

of isolation the greater the hope of But the stubbornness of Molotov, living securely within it. (Nole Some thought him dull. But, his resistance to all blandishments, America's almost self-sumfelent vainly seeks for the reason. What knowing that great men have many confirms the belief that Russin is hemisphere, protected by the Mon- dull routines tu perform, he deli- | governed but by a

not merely by political Toe Doctrine).

Faith.

Molotov is not ashamed to employ Thus when Me Byrnes declares power politics because, as a Marxist, TF the obstructionist methods of her that he will return Germany as soon he belleves the world is not yet spokesman, Molotov, continue, the ns possible to private

other trade, what amenable to any

form of time must scems Sound Business to him sounds suasion. And, of course,

come for a showdown. can- This is not pessimism, but unadulter- Ilke Blasphemy to Molotov's cars. ceives that he is using them for a ated logic. The rest of the world is

A good Soviet citizen honestly be- | good end. Molotov was

aching for peace and prosperity, and recently lieves that employing others for beard to say, that since only one yet the one cloud which overshindows private gain is the work of the devil.ration has the all-powerful weapon all in the councils of the world to- Small wonder, then, that conferences withstand her,

and only one other could possibly day is the Russian Riddle. drag on and even the Big Four can-

other 00-odd not agree.

nations

All are caught up in the power vacuum created by these two; Stalin

his own revolutionary fire, but en-

MOONRUNCAK

The HONGKONG TELE- GRAPH believes that "un- derstanding that makes the other fellow tick" is an essential for world har mony. In that belief it presents this analysis of Mr Molotov, written by Alaric Jacob (who was a reporter in Moscow during.. the war years) and pre sents Molotov in terms of his own beliefs and back- ground.

"

for she works all day at the Central suring that his beloved matter need Fashion House while he works all not sacrifice his own.

Is Molotov (or,

the war,

rather,

Was on 'ex-

the

he

of comparative

At this, the threshold of the atomic nge, it behoves all men and all no- tions to make every effort to com- speaking through Molelov) per that atomic power makes a farce of pase their differences, and it is up sonally hostile to us in the West? the equality of nations, since at the

to those who have been given the I am sure not. Stulla

moment the whole world depends responsibility of guiding the world' cellent terms with Churchill during for its safety on the good "will" and to peace, to do all in their power to

restraint of a

small

cultivate international goodwill and number of

brotherhood. HIS THESIS

He is fond of pointing to the chao-, Stalin holds the stage, but it is not tic state of China and the difficulties too late for him to change his role HAVE heard Molotov express facing India to show that the

his admiration

Inte unless he fails to appreciate the ter- for many war was only onc aspect of a rible potentialities of the atomic American institutions.

general ferment through which the bomb, be world must pass in our timo, HIS OPINION

many hard things about the British Em- pire because be belleves belief that on though we might have more world- that, people like wisdom than the Americans, the Americans are being Thirty-five years ago, in the re

pushed shall not be able to escape involve (Answers to Quesilons on Pago #) valullenary underground of

willy-nilly into Imperialistic expan-inent in the world-shaking economic Molotov is a religious man. Petersburg, he met the trilinely, creed, which is called "Marxism-use they are not capable of strain to come.

11-A Bolshevik, I antifarest in

organising their economy in such a Puhut goes by way us to consume what they pro- this makes another wer invitable.

Molotov does not believe that all other names in other lands, is that duce. to Man owes it to himself to use the

Put he does believe that a In trying to unload their surplus long period of change and fernient-A n 4-D dedicate his fe to Bolshevism, as 74 brutch and short years he has gom if his forebears hurl dedicat pron this rinnet vot in contemplate production he believes the Ameri- lies before us, chiring

cans will inevitably tread on

which thin

tween the nations.

night in the Forelun Onice.

What about his mind?

He did this so

But since he believes life to Molotov feels that no amount of Roverned by economie factors,

personal contact or friendliness con thoroughly that draw men together when

Economics

them

ace at Melotov to-day, it is al- economic forces are pushing Freut MOLOTOV says so most impossible to conceive that this which explains not met a mind of his own. He is prosaic, 56-year-old gentleman, was

Well, ina ganan Malatnu

proud to be the voice of his master, ever a fiery student, exiled and im-amlable, home every time."

Joseph Stalin.

handvoma

Georgian

Joseph Dugashvili."

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Mel-tev. hn already decldęd

St

prisoned time after time.

His

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Wo

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New he saw in the future Josen an unknowable future life, but people's corns and create tension be-i fundamentally as they were in the [20.10 mtract

ed their Ilves to the Church,

In perfecting himself in this one,

Stalin the chosen instrument who,

And that the shortest way lo

That is the Molotov theals. That

in lite view, possessed the colossal Iberate. Man for this pursuit is to is the main reason why he organises

Frars of the Crurades. that word Crusade....

18.15 corpaet Molotov is rather fascinated by: 14-11 mrmet

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