McCarthy visit | _ notorious ‘China Lobby’ m i] | C spe mal i fea Cif i i Risrnveesn LO Eo ) gm t AY pay DNA ANTE (UE CUNIB\E “Gnu Neat) apd teers iNT : ca Dn cathecehinite AMtannnienlll FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1954 Continued H-BOMB | bomb tests be halted and that renewed efforts be made to reach international agreement for banning atomic and fission weapons. A United Press dispatch from Washington quoted Holifield as saying that the March 1 test (revealed only last . week), which dumped radioactive dust on 287 persons, was so. much bigger than anticipated that “you might say it was out of control.” His statement served to under- line the sheer recklessness of U.S. war policy and of the hydrogen bomb threat to humanity. Not merely the H-bomb test, but the whole U.S. plan for launching a major H-bomb war appeared to be almost “out of control.” While US. scientists were turn- ing vast ranges of international waters in the Pacific into hydro- gen-bomb proving grounds and en- dangering the lives of Japanese fishermen, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was pushing his “New Look” policy of “in- stant and massive retaliation”—a U.S. State Department phrase which means the U.S. is prepar- ed to launch an atomic war at a time of its own choosing. ~ Latest convert to the U.S. “New Look” policy of atomic war was Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill who on March 23 pledg- ed Britain’s support to the new Pentagon formula. Nonetheless, in face of ‘the British people‘s alarm, Churchill was constrained to state in the House of Commons this week “there is nothing in the whole world” of affairs that dominates our thoughts more than the group of stupendous problems and perils comprised in the sphere of atomic and hydrogen developments.” The story of the latest U.S. H-bomb experiments broke last ~week when it was revealed that 23 Japanese fishermen had been - stricken after their 90-ton fishing boat was showered with radioac- tive dust. The ship was at least 80 miles distant from the. blast. The fishermen were all serious- ly stricken by radioactive dust. Their skins turned black, the hair of some has begun to fall out, an indication that their bloodstreams: have been effected by radio- activity. oe A party of scientists investigat- ing the fishing boat at the little port of Yaizu reported that Geiger counters showed readings sixty feet away. They decided that the vessel was now unusable and must be burned at sea after investiga- tions are completed. ‘ Discovery that some of the tuna landed from the boat was radioactive and had found its way to the Tokyo market. caused near panic. Fishmongers slashed prices in half in a desperate at- tempt to unload any tuna. But fish still rotted on the wharves. The U.S. government respond- ed to the plight of the fishermen in magnanimous fashion, offering 6 By JOHN STEWART it backed by) TORONTO Senator Joseph McCarthy is being sent’ to Canada with the backing of the powerful U.S. “China Lobby” group in Washington to try to whip up | opinion against the recognition of the Peopel’s Republic of China, it was learned here last week. Canadian public McCarthy is a leading backer of the China Lobby which governs U.S. Far The ruins of Hiroshima constantly remind the Japanese people of the horrors of atomic warfare. “free” medical aid. U.S. Ambas- sador John M. Allison called on the Japanese foreign minister, Katsuo Okazaki, and expressed his “concern.” — But Japanese scientists, whose knowledge of the ghastly effects of radioactivity on human beings © has been drawn from the tragic experience of Hiroshima ‘and Nagasaki, refused the U.S. offers. Otherwise, U.S. official circles were either silent concerning the tragedy or seemed to accept it as yet another triumph of U‘S. “technical ingenuity.” W. Sterling Cole, chairman of the U.S. Congressional Atomic Committee, said, boastfully, that the U.S. not only possesses the H-bomb but can deliver it to any part of the world. c - Time magazine described the H-bomb test as “man’s greatest explosion,” said its for@e took the scientists who set it off by. surprise. Force of the explosion was probably 500 times that of the Hiroshima bomb which killed 100,000 people, roughly equival- ent to 10 to 15 million tons of TNT. (Although force of the explo- sion may have taken U.S. scient- ists by surprise, a Polish scientist and former Canadian resident, Dr. Leopold Infeld had predicted last January in an article in the Canadian magazine, Peace Review, that it was reasonable to assume that a hydrogen bomb with a thousand times the energy of the biggest atomic bomb already ex- isted. Dr. Infeld, an authority in the field of atomic energy, went on to explain that, theoretically, at least, there is no limit to the size hydrogen bombs may be made.) The explosion was so powerful that the U.S. Atomic Energy Com- mission was forced to reclassify as a “misfire” the first H-bomb explosion of November 1, 1952. That “misfire” was itself so pow- erful it completely obliterated an island 10 miles long by five miles wide. Its mushroom cloud climb- ed 90,000 feet, into the strato- sphere, and a fast transport plane, carrying a U.S. Air Force general at 30,000 feet and 50 miles away, had to turn and run to avoid being caught under the lip of the mushroom. The March 1 explosion “jarred” an island 176 miles distant and rendered the catch of a fishing boat 1200 miles from the scene radioactive. Sc International News Seryice said it “has proved that there is no explosive limit to the size of the H-bomb.” : Unabashed, the U.S. militarists prepared to go ahead with more . H-bomb tests in the Pacific, as- sured the Japanese they would ex- tend the “hazard zone” around their proving ground, as though the Pacific Ocean were now the private laboratory of the “mad American scientists.” But the Manchester Guardian spoke for ithe overwhelming pub- lic opinion of all countries when it declared this week that U.S. scientists were “moving into the realm of the unknown” and the tests should be halted. ‘Week of great madness’ declares Peace Council “The past week will surely go down in the records as The Week of the Great Madness,” a B.C. Peace Council statement com- mented this week. “The U.S. military seems de- termined to turn the whole world into a chamber of horrors, if not to destroy it completely,’ the statement continues. The council urged all citizens to write their MPs asking them to press the federal government to declare that Canada will never be the first to use atomic weapons and to request other governments to join in such a declaration. A pamphlet, The Truth about the Hydrogen Bomb, compiled by Ray Gardner, council chairman, is being circulated by B.C. Peace Council, and is obtainable at its offices, 144 West Hastings here. States, among them Col. E. R. Wood (Simpson-Sears), Col. Mc- Cormick, ex-President. Herbert Hoover, General Douglas Mac- Arthur, William Randolph Hearst Jr., and other of like ilk. , John Hladun, professional anti- Communist and front man in Tor- * onto for the McCarthy meeting, is a key figure in an outfit calling itself “Canadians for Non-Recog- nition of Red China.” He wrote 2 booklet with this outfit last year and his office at 331 Bay Street (in which there is scarcely enough room for a desk) is the address listed by the Canadian committee. This group published a. series of advertisements during the last federal election campaign- ing again Canadian recognition of People’s China, under the head- ing “Iron Curtain over Canada.” That top U.S. circles in the Eisenhower administration are mixed up in McCarthy’s forth- coming visit to Canada, is shown by the sequence of events over the past few weeks: ® Following his visit with In- dia’s Prime Minister Nehru, Prime Minister St. Laurent told a press conference it was inevit-” able that the West would have to deal with the government “the Chinese people want.” (Later un- der pressure he withdrew the word “want” but indicated he favored recognition.) St. Laur- ent’s statement brought forth the big guns of the Tory party in Col. Drew and John Diefenbaker who proclaimed their strong opposi- tion to recognition of China. Hladun has been associated with the Conservative party for a number of years and the paper he once published, The Worker, was officially sponsored by Drew and the Ontario Tories in the 1948 provincial election. ® Last month, Hladun was in Washington where he served as a witness for the FBI in the Smith Act trial of Ben Gold, U.S. trade union leader and president of the Fur and Leather Workers Union. He admitted last week that “preliminary arrangements” for McCarthy’s visit had been made, while he was in the U.S. capital, ® Stories began appearing from _ UN headquarters in New York that Canada would support Britain’s proposed move to admit People’s China to the United Na- tions. Canadian public opinion is strongly in favor of recognition, which is supported in parliament by the CCF. (The Toronto Star reported March 22 that Canada would recognize the People’s gov- ernment this year.) : ; © Hladun, back in Toronto, an nounced that he had “invit- ed” McCarthy to speak in Toronto April 21 and that the witchhunt- ing senator had accepted, (A similar invitation was issued by a group in Victoria, B.C., headed by the same group that launched’ the book-burning campaign in that city and did the hatchet job on Librarian John Marshall, aided by the RCMP and Justice Minister Garson. McCarthy has not yet accepted.) d @