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THE LATE MR. BULL

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THE VICTOR PUTS ON HIS SUN SUIT

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By R. M. MacCOLL

KEY WEST (Florida), Nov. 16. WAS sitting in the Press headquarters:

watching two now photographors play à game of pool, when a man wearing a white crash helmet and an enormous smile bounced into the room.

"Hello, boys, who's winning?" he inquired' geninily.

Overnwed by the audience, one of the players mis-cued.

"That the best you can do" went on the President."Say, I'll have to send someone aver

to give you fellows some lessons."

Harry Truman brings to his "lazy" vacation in this former rum-runners' benchhead the same: gusto that swept him through the late electioneer- ing fracas......

He gets up "late" that means,seven instead of 5.30, his normal time in Washington. He eats a breakfast of orange juice, two strips of bacon,.' and toast (no eggs), in the unpretentious, white- painted frame house lent him by the naval officer in command.

Has the Atom SEFTON Has the

Bomb been oversold?

surprising cable from

ill-fated

Hiroshima

little inkl 2 IMIDLY.

the ashamed of itself, question sneaked into my mind as I drove into the out- skirts of Hiroshima and got my first glimpse of life in the atom- bombed town three years after. with The streets were lined wooden houses and occasional stone buildings, almost all in perfect re- men pair. They were alive with and women going about their bus- ness.

Everywhere there were shops, and they were crammed with food and Kouds. Masses of pots, pans, tools, furniture, cloth, souvenirs, cameras. chinaware, and what have you, or rather what you do not have,

My question? "Can it be that we in the West have been making 100 much fuss over the atom bomb, its effects and after-effects?. Arnt citizens of Hiroshima right and, the rest of us hysterical neurotics?"

Normal folk

FOR the fantastic truth is that of

-all-the-places I have visited since the war there is less atom bomb less alom bomb talk and emotion than anywhere else in tho world here in Iiroshima, where

atom 8 a.m. on August 6, 1945, an bomb burst, killing 78,150 and injured 37,425 others.

at

persons

bomb-

Every second person in this town has been through the atom Ing.

A

He insisted, of course, that it was stil far too early to assert this with The effect of radiation any finality.

who on the bloodstream of those

still have been exposed to it may provoke diseases like leucaemia,* or other phenomena still undreamed of.

Her father had been killed at his Was desk in the City Hall. That all. She giggled, bowed and went out

Not that the matter-of-fact atti- tude of the general public to their bomb has caused the city fathers or the souvenir merchants to lose sigh later on The

effect possible

of atom-bombed Hiroshima's poten- ni the generations of

exposure parents and grandparents to radia tialities as a tourist resort. ton must be awaited.

Normal lives

MOST of the radiation victims, said the colonel, had by now elther died or recovered. Children, for instance, who had lost their hair. have re- grown it--so have their elders. They entirely normal, are now living healthy lives.

And. indeed, only healthy, ener- getic, normal people could have

what Hircshimn achieved achieved in clearing up the and rebuilding the city.

has debris

over

The explosion of that one bomb flattened and burned down every wooden

brick building or* an area of nearly five square miles- about.a quarter of Hiroshima's total habitable area. Only stone or steel and concrete buildings like this one I am in now stood up to it. And they had their insides burned out. -

Mind you, there was no Bevan or Silkin to stop the people from re- building. It was all left to the in- dividual initiative of the citizen to satisfy his desire to build himself and his family a home and place of werk.

The guide, supplied by the mayor, who took me round, had already developed a typical guide's patter and typleal list of sights.

Most of these sights are shadows. bomb exploding in the sky burned For the searching glare of the atomic

pigmentallon of all within its radius.

the

surfaces

Stone shadows

CHADOWS

been cast then have burned in for eternity. For I have no doubt that should time start to dull their sharpness, the Hiro- shima town counell will not refrain from a little plus touching up of these atomic stigmata,

CHAPMAN PINCHER

says

Delmer's brand of

of

Maybe is this self-reliance' and to their

attention concentrated everyday problems which is respon- sible for the inhabitants' lack nt emotion about the atomic bomb.

thinking is dangerous

I expected to see something that ordeal written in their inces. and women mentally

I expect to find men

suffering physically and

from its after-effects.

children I was prepared to And stunted and misshapen by the effects of atomic radiation on their mothers.

I had read of the grey, leaden apathy to which the victims at be were sald to atomic radiation subject. I have looked carefully. I have inquired and questioned. But I have found none of it,

Instead, I have found the people of Hiroshima to te a cheerful, en-. tirely normal, hard-working folk.

Colonel

Girl's story

cup of tea and a plece of cake THE girl who has just brought me a giggled with surprise when I spoke of the bomb. Sho confessed she had not discussed it with her friends for months."

garden,"

the "I was sweeping she cald, when there was an orange flash, and our house collaps

n

In

show-

IT is a pity Delmer missed the burial most significant atomic piece

Hiroshima-the grounds of those 78,150 bomb vic- time. For to my mind the stillness reliable is a more

thon of those dead measure of the atom's power the busilo.of the living.

110

And I would put a different inter- buoyancy of the pretation on the streel crowds. I would say that in

their

dreadful shrugging memories the Hiroshimans are be having no differently from any other have survived great people who

ordeals.

The most dramatic is the shadow of a man cast on the stone wall of Sumitomo Bank. He was sitting on the steps waiting for the bank to преп.

But what is the answer to my question? Is the atom bomb, now that I have seen Illroshima, still the terrible weapon I had believed it to be?

In two points I have certainly re- vised my former views-

It is less destructive than I had

bridge expected. The was the aiming point was but remained usable.

001

which twisted

and

After breakfast the President goes upstairs to his study in the "winter White House" and spends_n-couple of hours at his correspondence and studying the special digest of world. events

prepared by 難 staf of experis,

Although Mr Truman wanted to "forget the world" when he came down ta thin sub-tropical dot in

the sea, stuck 120, milles from the Florida____mainland the reminders pursue him,

Reports stream In-yesterday the President

Ave received

big "pouches" of mail by the Navy's dully courier plane-from American listening posts throughout the world.

20

At ten sharp he temps up from hla desk and marches outside.' wearing a white helmet, He is resembling # cross between racing

and mator-cyclist's American explorer's in clarkest Afrlen, Am

dark glasses. 1 white, pleated Cuban

tails: shirt; its

trousers, hanging, free, seersucker and "sneakers" (gym shoes).

HE DROPS IN

with constantly TALKING

members of his entourage, and followed by two Secret Service men looking oddly unconvincing in their apla attire, the President swings:

@ palm-fringed roadway long through the naval base towards the beach a mile away.

This

road takes him past Press building normally

bachelor

our the officers quarters when Its radiation does not seem to have the genocidalt effects first the naval base is free of reporters- credited to it. I would say the big and he can rarely resist the temptis-"

tion to

to visit us. raids

Berlin. Hamburg

Once he was as unshaven na Jack Essen were more destructive.

Dempsey in training and here was But only one bomb was used at badinage about beards. Next day Hiroshima. And if there is ever he invited us all to go long. in next time several will be used at a swimming

condition high time, mixed with and V-bombs.

explosives

Yes, despite Hiroshima and courage, I am still scared.

ita

Little could have been done for the injured anyway, for of the 200 doctors Hiroshima that morning 208 were casualties themselves, and of 1,780 nurses, 1,054 were killed or injured.

atom

.was

water.

only

with me." The

should that wap

W3 "leave cameras and pencils behind."

The President, wearing Hawalian-owered trunks, Charges ing the more Into the

rallying luggard members of his party. He stays in the water for one and a. half or two hours breaststroking, with the floating, and plunging best of them.

Truman

likes-best- session."

In the evening Harry gets-whut he probably in the world" bull Soms "old-fashioned" cocktails are- served in

ກ the squat glasses

The strategie value of the bomb may be debatable, but there is verandah and the storytellers take

no doubt of its power to citles and their peoples-and DESTROY THEM IN MINUTES.

destroy over.

TO There

A FEW storytellers

White

are two highly respected

winter at the House -just now in the persons of Truman's old

Army friend and, Any Buggestion

atom Attache, General Vaughan, and the bombing is, perhaps, not so bad is Vice-President, 73-year-old

that

most dangerous thinking.

Barkley, of Kentucky.

CLIMBING BACK

Alben

DUT at least the Delmer despatch Ddispels a false notion which mayTHOUGH all is smiles around the wrong be more widespread than those of President, the sad backwash of

guessed facis "the boys" who

about the election is in full flood.

Ιπ us in daily contact with the

the private hotel sulte ct. realise.

killing one of the local Democratic Party This delusion is that the power of the

lles bigwigs I overheard a long-distance mainly in its ability to produce fatal telephone call from the Northern "after-effects" by its radio-activity. Florida town of Jacksonville.

atomic bomb

The bomb kills chiefly by fire and

blast.

There were no after-effects at all due to radiations from the ground in was Hiroshima, because the bonb detonated 2,000 ft. up.

The

conversation went like this:-

Ych, I "Oh, hullo there.

wonder- ed when we'd be hearing from you. gave. Oh, it Aye, that's all you was your secretary's mistake? You. really wanted to give a thousand? Yeh, I guess we can accept it if --- you insist. We're a bit down the symptoms financially. There were delayed

hole

Ych,

thousand I'll make it a caused by the rays given off at the But

What's in

that? Oh books. imoment of the explosion.

you want it dated before Novem

. O... days, and most of the people affect-ber 2. Now look, Ed.

we'll

It October 31 for a ed died within a month.

ed and buried me under a debris of tiles and morlar." She lived about the same distance from the bursting

ot Assessment For a balanced bomb as Charing Cross Station

and morale- destruction Tessmer, chief of from St Paul's Cathedral.

tho F.

of American scientists

breaking power of the atomic bomb. the group

clinical 21 established who have

I would rather reach into my records these began to appear within a few "I get out of the debris, and so

reports of Dway for those cold, factual laboratory In Hiroshima, for did my mother and we ran

houss

what Hiroshima looked like and how after- search into the effects and

its people neted immediately after effects of the atom bomb on Its to the south. We found a

with the explosion... human victims over a period of 50 belonging, to friends which had not

been damaged and stayed years, confirmed my impressions of the population's apparently unscath them." ed normality.

A discare in which the number of white blood corpuscles is greatly increased.

one

make

Evertering

the Democrats are these arc

I assure Sefton Delmer that there thousand instead of 50."

belated wind- were people with "grey, leaden, apathetic faces." But they are no encoun

surprising only THERE I would find that

West where the pro bomb, with the explosive power longer to be seen in the streets of falls. They

here in, Key

concession to the modern other of 20,000 tons of T.N.T., obliterated Hiroshima. A word not yet in the standard. four and a half square miles of the

They make up about 20 per cent. trends of the mainland is to offer not hamburgers 'but: was used at the city and put those who survived it dictionaries. It

into such panic flight that no or- of the 78,150 in those burial grounds the diner-out Nuremberg trials to denote race or

ganized rescue service was possible. I wish Delmer had visited. moss murder.

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