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B.C. doctors warn of dangers, urge ban on H-bomb

Eighteen doctors in the Great-
ér Vancouver area have address-
ed a letter to Prime Minister
Lovis St, Laurent urging him
“to use Canada’s great prestige
to press for an immediate uni-
versal banning of all atomic
Weapons.” ;

The letter states: “We would
like to be-assured that the ruddy
color in our cheeks is due to
the spring air, not radiation, and
that our children will grow up

in an intact world.”

A copy of the‘letter was re-
ceived last week by the Pacific
Tribune with a covering letter
stating that copies were being
sent to all local mewspapers.
But at Pacific Tribune press
time only one Vancouver daily
paper, the News-Herald, had
published it — a mute commen-
tary on the way Vancouver daily

papers handle the news.
Text of the letter follows:

As physicians and citizens,
we wish to draw to the prime
minister’s attention the mortal
danger of radioactivity facing
the population.

One hydrogen bomb has had
incalculable, and as yet undefin-
ed effects. Repeated, unmeasur-
ed amounts of exposure to radi-
ation, from the air, and later in
our food, could lead to a great
increase of skin and gastro-in-
testinal cancer, at the very least.
The terrible danger of an atomic

war is ever present.

We would like to be assured
that the ruddy color in our
cheeks is due to the spring air,
not radiation, and that our child-
ren will grow up in an intact
world. We, therefore, urge the
prime minister to use Canada’s
great prestige to press for an
immediate universal banning of
all atomic weapons.

We are a small group, hur-
riedly contacted, but we feel
sure we are speaking for the

great majority of Canadians.
Please act now.

(Signed) F. A. Walton, MD;
T. G. Parsons, DDS; Lloyd C.
Capling, MN; H. A. Ohrt, MD; G.
T. Wilson, MD; Olive Sadler,
MD; H. Ostry, MD; L. Lesk,
MD; Bede J. Harrison, MD; M.
Schreiber, MD; J. Lyle Telford,
MD; S. C. Thorson, MD; G. A.
Sackville, MD; Malin Panar,
DDS; R. J. A. Hogg, MD; H.
Winrob, MD; B: D. Panar, DDS;
M. Verbrugge, MD.

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its Sharge that “Red agents” were blackmailing Chinese-Canadians— Six Soviet concert stars journeying to Canada for a three week tour will appear

on canted to state that the bond shown is a 1950 issue no longer i, Exhibition Gardens here on Friday, April 23:
me: The Soviet artists are coming to Canada at the invitation of the Canadian-
Soviet Friendship Society. The group will be headed by Alexander Solodovnikov,

KY U I C bo nd I former director of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. The six concert performers are:
nn Ss ee Leonid Kogan, violinist, winner

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sian Republic of the USSR;

. Elizaveta Chavdar, soprano,
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With their usual disdain for the facts, fabricated this USSR, Stalin Prize Winner, Hon-
“2Ption: “Chinese bonds like this are being sold by Red _ ored Artist of the Latvian Repub-

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