Churchill Refuses To Intervene In
U.S. Pacific Hydrogen Bomb Tests
LONDON, UP — Prime Minister
Churchill declared today the So
viet Union is “very much closer
. on the heels of the United States”
in the development of the H-bomb
than they ever were with the A
bomb.
He made the statement in a
House of Commons debate in
which he again refused to inter
vene against American H-bomb
tests in the Pacific. He said the
tests “increased the chance of
world peace rather than the
chance of world war.”
Armed with non - security H
bomb infromation supplied by
President Eisenhower himself, the
79-year-old Churchill told a tense,
jam - packed House of Commons
“We do not know what the So
viets are doing inside their vast
lands.”
He said “I shall make no pre- i
diction today,” but added:
“The Soviets were well behind 1
the U.S. even before the Ameri- j
can hydrogen explosion of March
1, but they were very much
I closer on the heels of the U.S. in
i the development of hydrogen
| bombs than they ever were in
| atomic bombs.”
Churchill said the H-bomb “is
now in large scale production, I
believe, in the U.S. We also be
lieve, that to a less degree, and
possibly in less potent form, it
is in large scale production in
Soviet Russia.”
Churchill took issue with for
mer Prime Minister Clement At
tlee, who told the Commons
earlier that development of the
H-bomb would not “in itself pre
vent wars.”
Churchill appealed against what
he called “hysteria” and said: “I
must repeat that I shall not ask
the United States to stop their
series of experiments which will
go on throughout April.”
Churchill said “nothing could
be less helpful to us in our prob
lems than panic and hysteria, es
pecially when the actual physical
results are all favorable to the
free world.”
Stevenson Says GOP Should Stop
(ailing Names and Concentrate
On International Atom Control
CHARLOTTE, N.C., —Adlai
Stevenson said Friday night the
Eisenhower Administration should
“stop calling names” and concen
trate on international control of
“the unknown demons that lurk
in the atom.”
In a 45-minute, 5,000-word ad
dress to more than 2,500 North
Carolina Democrats, the 1952
presidential candidate said the
Indochina War, growing unem
ployment, and the threat of atom
ic war were grave problems fac
ing the nation.
Stevenson termed what he
called “the frustration of the
< GOP) legislative program, the
division, the feuding, the name
* calling, the timidity and the im
potence” a “distasteful spectacle,”
and added:
“It is not just the fate of the
Eisenhower Administration that is
at stake ... it is the fate of all
of us.
“A year ago tonight I was in
Indochina and every day the peri!
increases there. Every month
more Americans lose their jobs.
“The .ghastly (thermonuclear)
explosions in the Pacific have
pointed up the imperative neces
sity for new and desperate inter
national efforts to control the un
known demons that lurk in the
atom.
“And yet for weeks and weeks
our national life is preoccupied
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that the nation has not been
“getting straight talk from ir
leaders.”
Canadian Firm Plans
Huge Smelting Industry
In North B.C. and Yukon
VANCOUVER, B.C., OP—A for
mer Yukon mining executive,
Gordon Lee of Whitehorse, said
in an interview here Friday that
Frobisher Ltd. of Toronto has yet
to offer the Btritish Columbia
government a concrete proposal
for development of the Canadian
North.
Frobisher is reported planning
to harness a tremendous hydro
potential in northern B.C. and
the Yukon for a huge smelting
industry.
Lee, president of the White
horse Chamber of Mines and a
board of trade director, said here
he obtained the information from
Premier Bennet in Victoria.
Lee said surveys for such a pro
ject have been going on for a
year. He said the project would
immensely increase northern ore
tonnage and make mining a low
cost operation in the area.
Although the best and most
economical sites for Frobisher ap
pear to be in Alaska, Lee said, it
is thought a joint arrangement
will be made between the Canad
ian and United States govern
ments.
Grocers estimate that food mar
kets of 1939 had about a thousand
items from which the consumer
could choose, but that there were
' 5,000 items in 1953.
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French Jet Ace
Crashes as Defense
Minister Watches
PARIS, (#>—A French jet fiight
er crashed Saturday at the Mulen
Villaroche Airport within 165 feet
.of Duncan Sandys and Rene
Pleven, French defense minister.
At the controls of the plane, a
French made Myster'e IV, was the
famous test pilot Col. Constantin
Razanoff. He was killed.
Sandys arrived in Paris Friday
to attend an air demonstration of
France’s latest model jet fighter.
Sandys and Pleven went to the
'military airdrome, about 35 miles
southeast of Paris, to watch the
demonstration.
First reports said that neither
Sandys nor Pleven were hurt.
Razanoff, 49, was the first
French pilot to break through the
sound barrier in a French manu
factured jet.
Sandys is Prime Minister
Churchill’s son-in-law. He is mar
ried to Churchill’s eldest daugh
ter, Diana.
Razanoff, who piloted the Mys
tere IV to a speed of approximate
ly 837 miles an hour last October,
was made a grand officer of the
French Legion of Honor in 1953.
At the opening of World War II
he was commanding a fighter
group.
PUSAN SUFFERS
3rd DISASTROUS
FIRE IN 5 MONTHS
PUSAN, Korea, UP)—A three
hour fire swept through a refugee
crowded shanty section of this
port city Saturday, leaving 40
persons dead and at least 3,700
homeless.
About 100 persons were injured
seriously enough to require medi
cal assistance. Nine hundred fam
ilies lost their homes, army offi
cials said.
American and Korean firemen
battled for three hours to check
the flames, which foT a time
threatened the largest army quar
termaster depot in Korea. Two
Korean warehouses were de
stroyed.
The flames leveled a section of
packing box shanties known to
American soldiers here as “Little
Chicago.”
Korean national police said the
blaze started when gas escaping
from a leaky main was touched
off by two carpenters.
The fire was Pusan’s thrid disas
trous blaze in five months. Three
persons were killed and 6,000
buildings were destroyed last
Nov. 28. A second fire destroyed
1,500 refugee shacks .fan. 28.
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