student, two members of the
prefectual chapter, one Bud-
dhist priest and a member of
the Tokyo municipal council.
The vessel will carry a crew
of 20.

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1957

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NUCLEAR TESTS

claimed that

20 or 30 years,
000 people might die

of nuclear tests so

In New Zealand, close to
the British testing area off
Christmas Island, Michael
Mochan, president of the New
Zealand Labor party, told the
party’s annual conference’ in
Wellington that the only rea-
son for the creation of the H-
bomb and guided missiles was
the killing of tens*of thous-
ands of innocent people.

At Bonn, the parties of the
West German coalition tabled
a motion calling for a tempor-
the great powers
> tests.

sarlier in the day the So-
Democratic party call-

ed upon the government to re-
nounce atomic weapons and
to. refuse to allow them to be
tioned in the Federal Re-

Cla

In Moscow, the Supréme
Soviet ended its four-day ses-
sion with an appeal to the Bri-
tish parliament and the U.S.

Refugees sought
for espionage

BUDAPEST

Hungarian refugees in
France are being recruited-for
the Foreign L a, for the U.S.
for spy schools, a
foreign Ministry

‘Young Hungarians are be-
ing recruited for the American
army on French territory. And
into the French Foreign Legion.
A also being recruited
he said.

They are
for spy schools,”

Congress to set up a joint com-
mittee “to work ‘out the best

means” to ban both H-tests
and H-bombs.
In the British House of

Lords, Lord Nathan (Labor)
warned the peers that “for us
in these islands it is a case
of disarmament or die.” As
he spoke, demands for halting
the tests were being raised in
every part of the country.

In Washington, Adlai Stev-
enson, speaking on a television
program before leaving for
Europe and Africa, said:

“T am against the contamin-
ation of the human race. I am
much in favor of ending the
tests on large hydrogen wea-
pons. I am also in favor of
steps to control production of

the weapon.”

In Tokyo, the Japan Peace
Council announced receipt of
a message from Soviet Prem-
ier Nicolai Bulganin, pledging
that his government would
continue its efforts to secure
the banning of nuclear-bomb
tests by agreement.

The Japanese Council
Against Atomic and Hydrogen
Bombs announced postpone-
ment of the “peace navy” to
be sent in the area of the Bri-
tish tests in the vicinity of
Christmas Island. The state-
ment said, however, that the
council would support the
sending of a 200-ton fishing
boat with 20-crew members
and eight council representa-
tives to the test area.

=

And in London, the Macmil-
lan government, defying
mounting pressures at home
and abroad for agreement to
end nuclear explosions, an-
nounced the explosion of the
first British hydrogen bomb
in the Central Pacific.

Harold Steele, a 63-year-old
British
from Malvern, Worcestershire
London to Delhi,

farmer and Quaker
flew from
India, on his way to the Paci-
fic where he hopes to be tak-

en aboard “the peace ship.”

Steele

ticket and a provisional, open

bought a one-way

ticket to Fiji. In ‘Tokyo, a
spokesman for the council said
that Steele might be consid-

ered aS a passenger.

The council also announced
that it intends to send mis-
sions to the United States, Bri-
tain and the Soviet Union tc
protest against continued nu-

clear-weapon tests.

The three missions are ex-
pected to leave Tokyo on June
16 and will stay, in each coun-

try for about three weeks.

_ Japanese missions to take
_ H-tests plea to 3 capita

TOKYO

The council for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons met here this week to de-
cide on the details of sending a 200-ton vessel to the British nuclear testing area- off
Christmas Islands as a protest against nuclear explosions.

Acting on the recommendation of a sub-committee, the council decided to send
the following as observers: one doctor, tw) newspaper

reporters, one university

There won't be Red square
on Red Square to say nay

By SAM RUSSELL

MOSCOW

High jinks for hep cats on a super scale are being planned
here with Kremlin consent — and even encouragement — for
the World Youth Festival which opens on July 29.

This was disclosed in a

surprise announcement by the

Festival Preparatory Committee here this week, for hitherto

officialdom has rather frown-
ed on boogie woogie, jive,
rock ’n’ roll and other such
deviations from the strict New
Orleans line.

Now there’ll not be a Red
square to say nay in Red
Square if the festival partici-
pants decide to “cut a rug,”
get “sent” or just rock with-

in sight and sound of the
Kremlin.
For the announcement in-

vites young jazz fiends the
world over to take part in the
festival jazz competition
which will be a feature of the
festival.

The competition is open to
groups of not more than 15,
excluding soloists and con-
ductor, with an upper age
limit of 32 for all participants
except the band leader.

Every band will have 30
minutes on the stage with
free choice of instruments,
style and jazz interpretation
with no eliminating stages or

set program. It is already
known that Carlo Loffredo

and his Roman New Orleans
band will compete.

It is already evident, . too,
that Soviet competitors will
not limit themselves to
straight jazz for the new bands
that are being formed every
week by young factory work-
ers and students have jive
and rock ’n’ roll high on their
programs.

Nevada town exposed

e e

to radioactive fallout
NEW YORK

During recent nuclear wea-
pon tests in Nevada, a small
town of 40,000 people was ex-
posed to 1,260 times the “per-
missible” level of radioactive
contamination, it was charged
here last week by the Reporter.
The journal accused the

Atomic Energy Commission of
being unable to safeguard the
public properly.

BERMUDA

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