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In a talk before a Chicagu
group last April, Dr. Pauling
é brought into his informal ad-
dress a remark to the effect
@ that continued nuclear Weapon
Jos tests posed great danger for
| present” and future
tions.

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‘I didn’t realize there was a
reporter present,” recalls Dr.
Pauling. “I was quite surpris-
ed to see my words given prom-
inent attention in the press
But I wasn’t Sorry, of course.
Ive felt very Strongly on the

_ subject for years, ] was dis-
ff turbed that the American re-
ct ception to Schweitzer’s speech
oo eee danger wasn’t

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- coverage of it.” ese

Some weeks after the Chica-
go talk, the renowned Cali-
fornia Institute of Technology
professor addressed 1,000 stu-
dents and faculty members at
Washington University, in St.
Louis, and this ti
on the perils
sa fallout.

“Afterward,” he says, “
was asked to write sea
ment Sumarizing my beliefs.
ae did, and showed it to the
ati at Washington Uni-
versity, almost :
eee: all- of whom
| “This started Me _ thinking
3 When I returned to Pasadena
4 I eiiaied a letter, had it mim-

eograp ed and sent it out to
friends. Twenty-six responded.
Then I sent out more letters—
: a big mailing. By now I had
hired an extra secretary. At
one time I had four extra sec-
retaries.”

Two thousand men and

women of science in the Unit-

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_ @ppeal to the nations of the
| world to cease testing nuclear

_ weapons. He affixed the
_nmames to his petition and sent

_ ment, to President Eisenhower.
“I didn’t know what to do,
_ except send it to the presi-

dent,’ explains the firm-jaw-
ed, erect professor. “I got a
letter from a secretary ack-
nowledging the letter, and
_that was all. Later, the
dent said some organi-
1 must be behind it.”

ed States signed Dr. Pauling’s

it together with a public state-'

- was Leningrad, where

ght, impromptu sentences, seriously but casually delivered, st
» Nobel Prize winner, on his now-famous crusade to enlist the scientists
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eating the story of Dr. Pauling’s campaign which has projected his name into news-
paper headlines around the world, Labor’s Daily, U.S. national labor daily, says the two sentences

Almost immediately, the
Senate Internal Security
Committee announced its in-
tion to summon Dr. Pauling
Amidst shocked indignation
from scientists in America and
Europe. Dr. Pauling made
clear his willingness to testify.
“Maybe I can teach them
something,” he commented.

But the summons was. al-
most immediately withdrawn,
and on June‘8 Dr. and Mrs.
Pauling embarked for Europe,
where he had been invited to
lecture by some of the great-
est academic circles on the
continent.

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French professors in the
sciences asked to sign the
petition, and hundreds of
riames were affixed “in al-
most no time at all.”

From the Free University
of Brussels, where he spoke,
he received a letter signed by
40 professors, who asked to be
affiliated with the American-
scientists who had endorsed
Pauling’s petition. Several
hundred Norwegian scientists
sent in their names after Paul-
ing presented a paper in Oslo.

After concluding his lec-
tures in Western Europe, Dr.
and Mrs. Pauling travelled to
the Soviet Union, First stop
they
saw a statement, calling for
an end to the tests, signed by
many scientists of that city.

On arrival in Moscow he met
a Leningrad scientist whose
name was conspicious by his

absence, the man being one .

of his nation’s top-most scien-
tific names. “I.see your name
isn’t on the petition,” said Dr.
Pauling. !
“That’s true,” the Russian
replied. “I was out of town.
If I was there I’d have signed
with both hands. Here Ill

write you a personal state- -

ment now.”

Some Moscow academicians,
Dr. Pauling observed, were
circulating the petition among
their colleagues. One night, at

.a banquet, Dr. Pauling stop-

ped to chat with Yezmeanov.
an official leader
Soviet scientists.
“How about the scientists in
the USSR signing an appeal.
by the American scientists?”

among

200 scientists |
ould ban H - tests

started Dr. Linus
of the world

$ own. What surprised him was the prominence given to his remarks.

Pauling put to Yezmeanov.
The Russian rubbed his cheek.
“Give me a day to work on
it,’ he answered.

“He must have done some-
thing, or others did,” smiles
DDr. Pauling. “I received or
was sent 216 signatures of
members and correspondents
of the Russian Academy of
Science.”

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When Dr. Pauling returned
to California, he sent letters
to scientists throughout the
world. The response was
overwhelming “Japanese
scientists immediately re-
plied,” he _ says. “Nuclear
weapons have deep and ter-
rible meaning to them.”

A few hundred signatures
were sent from Rumania, “a
couple of hundred,” from New
Zealand, several hundred from
India.

A distinguished Indian scien-
tist wrote: “If there is a scien-
tist in India who would not
sign the appeal, I do not know
of him. If we had more time
we could have secured the
names of all our scientists, but
we wanted to get this to you
as soon as possible, to clasp
hands with scientists through-
out the world who speak for
humanity.”

Dr. Pauling wrote to 75 fel-
lows of the Royal Society, in
England. Thirty-six sent in
their signatures by the time
Dr. Pauling took his petition
to the United Nations.

He sent letters to all 500
members of the United States
Academy of Science. More
than 100 signed. Some, who
declined, wrote back: ‘I
am an adviser to the govern-
ment.” A number of those
who would not give their ap-
proval explained that private-
ly they were in complete
sympathy with the appeal to
halt the tests. ;

pete $e Rod

Last month, when the Nobel
Committee invited him to a
dinner, he took the petition—
bearing 9,234 names — with
him to New York. There, after
some protocol, he and. Mrs.
Pauling presented the petition
to United Nations general
secretary Dag Hammarskjold.

“He gave us half an hour

The trial of Robert Sommers, Social Credit MLA for

Rossland-Trail and former lands and forests minister,
on bribery-conspiracy charges in connection with granting
of Forest Management Licenses has been set for May 1.
Sommers (right) is shown with his lawyer, Angelo Branca.
Three companies and individual officers of those companies
have also been committed for trial on similar charges.

and appeared to be very in-
terested,” Dr. Pauling says.
Delegates from India ap-
proached Dr. Pauling after the
Hammarskjold conference and
declared that they would like
to introduce a similar petition
in the UN. But so far no
action has been taken.
Coming back to Pasadena,
Dr. Pauling found more signa-
tures, including a warm letter
from famed doctor Albert
Schweitzer. : :
“You can’t imagine how
greatly moved I was when I
heard of the activities of the
two thousand American scien-
tists,’ wrote the legendary
Schweitzer. “Then I knew that
the truth about the radio-
active danger could no longer

be lied about. Your appeal
made a very great impression
in Europe.”

Since returning from New
York, Dr. Pauling hag collect-
ed nearly three thousand more
signatures, making “the total

approximately 12,000 — “and
more keep coming in right
along.”

Dividing the signatures poli-
tically, Dr. Pauling summar-
izes: “Forty-five countries are
represented. About one-third
of the signatures are from the
United States and close coun-
tries, and one-third from
neutrals.”

And he adds, “It’s conserva-
tive to say that a majority of
scientists in the world are in
favor of the appeal.” :

Festival numbers given
at Shevchenko concert

More than 1,000 people attending the annual Shevchenko
concert at the International Cinema last Sunday evening were
treated to premiere performances of several numbers which will
be presented at the Ukrainian Festival here ‘next July 12,

The Fishermen’s Dance, for which the choreography was

done by- Bea Bezubiak, dance
director for the Association of
United Ukrainian Canadians,
won enthusiastic applause.
Done in the Ukrainian idom
of dancing, to Ukrainian mu-
sic, it told the story of the
fishing industry in B.C.
Another highlight was the
Moldavian Dance Poama per-
formed by the Ukrainian sen-

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ior dance. group.

Three individual items on
the program provided contrast
to the mass performances. So-
Joists were Andrea Kalanj,
well known young pianist and
Chris Mayuk, vocalist. Bill
Philipovich also gave a read-
ing from the works of Shev-
chenko.