_ MOLOTOV WARNS WEST _ | ‘Dangerous playing with new war’ A new warning of the danger and futility of the at a moving and dramatic occasion in the Soviet capital las of the Franco-Soviet treaty of 1944, Molotov declared: “The Soviet Union, the Chinese People’s Republic and the Peo that there is no force in the world that could arrest our progress along “We have such U.S. considers new The most. horrible bomb ever made is now being discussed by American scientists and military stategists. It would have more than 25,000 times the power of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. The revelation that the bomb is being considered comes from two of the best informed political cor- respondents in the United States —Joseph and Stewart Alsop. In the New, York Herald Tribune they say: j “Tt is now possible to build a hydrogen bomb so montrously powerful that it will pass the ‘limit of blow-out.’ . . . The physicists estimate the limit of blow-out at around 50 megatons, meaning a bomb with about 25,000 times the power of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.” The bomb is known in USS. scientific, military and political circles. as the “Super-Super.” But even the Washington generals are afraid of it—not because it would cause untold agony and devasta- tion wherever it was exploded by U.S. “defense” forces, but because its radiological effects might reach the United States itself. The Alsop brothers say it is feared that the Super-Super “might have unpredictably far- reaching radiological side effects, perhaps endangering life in parts of this country as well as other countries like Japan. “This is the simple reason why the wisdom of testing the Super- Super is being so anxiously de- bated.” The disclosure make nonsense of the “negotiation from strength” policy backed by British and U.S. politicians. The Alsop brothers admit that the debate is not limited to the Super-Super—‘“for if the explosion of one hydrogen bomb half a world away might endanger this country how about the explosion of 500 such bombs—or 5,000, all within a short space of time?” The Alsop brothers say it might destroy the United States as well as the country it was used against. Fourth candidate wins? African seat CAPETOWN A 41-year-old printer standing as - an independent cadidate, L. B. Lee Warden, has been elected to the South African parliament at na- tives’ representative for the Cape Western area. Three previous holders ‘of this seat were either expelled or pre- vented from taking their seat in the House. The three previous holders — Sam Kahn, Brian Bunting and Miss Ray Alexander—were all “named” under the Suppression of Com- munism Act. Warden has been banned from attending meetings but not yet “named.” super-bomb LONDON A terrifying picture of the dan- gers of new atom and hydrogen weapons — including Super V2s with a 5,000-miie range — was given to the British House of Com- mons last week. : P. J. Noel-Baker described such a weapon — the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, with a tremendous hydrogen warhead, a 4,000 mph speed and which can be guided to its target — in opening the debate on the banning of atomic weapons. He said the U.S. had six types of guided missiles in service. He .| declared the Soviet Union was sup- posed to be ahead ‘in this. “The American Service authori- ties are officially talking about what they called the L.B.M. — In- tercontinental Ballistic Missile — a super V2 which carries a tre- mendous hydrogen warhead,’ he said. It had a range of 5,000 miles, travels at 4,000 miles an hour and could be guided to the city to be attacked. “In this country we can forget the ‘I’ because missiles with much shorter range will do for us,” he added. Dealing with the great destruc- tive power of modern weapons, Noel Baker said: “If one hydro- gen bomb fell on this Palace of Westminster the area of total de- struction would be nine miles.” Burma no U.S. stooge PEKING Premier U Nu or Burma, ‘head- ing a goodwill mission to People’s China, stated here last week that if Burma allowed herself to be used by enemies of China it would only create trouble. “I want to give this assurance,” he said, “that under no circumstances will we be the stooges of any power.” A super H-bomb next? V. M. MOLOTOV Violation of Potsdam Agreement MOSCOW policy of rearming West Germany was given by Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, speaking t week. Addressing a meeting in Moscow's Hall of Columns to mark the tenth anniversary power that no force could stop our progress. ples’ Democracies have such manpower, and enjoy such support abroad, our chosen path toward a Socialist civilization. The meeting was attended by the French ambassador to the USSR, Louis Joxe, just back in Moscow from Paris, and before it opened a band played first the Marseillaise and then the Soviet national anthem. Even as it was in proress the U.S. High Commissioner in Bonn announced that West Germany would be supplied with modern weapons “on a basis other NATO partners.” ‘ comparable with that of our He was denying reports that West German army would receive only obsolete weapons. Molotov’s speech with the second Soviet warning with 24 hours. Earlier a Soviet note told Britain, France and the United States that the Soviet Union would increase its own armaments if the Paris agreements to rearm West Ger- many were ratified. The Soviet note charged that the Paris agreements were a flagrant violation of the Pots- dam Agreement to demilitarize Germany.’ Not only would they make four-power talks on Ger man unification “void of sub- stance,” they would militate against an Austrian settlement. “In reply to the implementation of the remilitarization of Western Germany and to the new intensifi- c;ation of the aggressiveness in the West German planes produced in Spain LONDON West Germany’s first post-war aircraft exists — built in Franco’s Spain by Dornier’s, which produced fleets of planes for the Luftwaffe. Although only a 150 hp picton-engined, light utility mono- plane (according to the new volume of Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft, published last week) this is a violation of the Pots- dam Agreement. Under this agreement between Britain, the Soviet Union, France and the U.S., the Germans were forbidden “the maintenance and production of all aircraft.” By production of this aircraft, Western Germany is anticipating ratification of the London and Paris agreements under which, ac- cording to General Gruenther, Su- preme Allied Commander in Eur- ope, a German air force of 1,300 planes will be in being in three years. i Although this disclosure con-. cerning the DO25 monoplane in Madrid is the first public intima- tion that new German aircraft actually exist, there may be many more. 4 In August 1953, Dornier’s be- came the head of the Aero-Union which combined the biggest Ger- man aircraft manufacturers — Messerschmidt, Heinkel, Focke- Wulff *and Daimler-Benz. This was one of the major steps Jin restoring the aircraft industry. Last year it is known that Mes- serschmidt began construction of new aircraft works in Essen, plan- ned to produce 300 bombers a month. Heinkel, too, some years ago started the construction of four new aircraft works on the outskirts of Stuttgart. Jane admits that Dorniers has branched out in Spain “because the design and manufacture of air- craft is prohibited in Germany.” It goes on to recall that after the First World War “a sister company (of Dorniers) was es- tablished in 1926 on the neigh- boring Swiss shores of Lake Con- stance for the production of mili- tary aircraft, the construction of which was then prohibited in Germany.” A shadow concern was also set up in Sweden by Heinkel. It is not the first time that Spaip | has been used by the Germans for undercover rearming. German U-boats were built there between the wars. - Britain gave facilities for de- velopment of Dornier aircraft be- fore the last war. In 1938 the DO18 was catapulted from a Ger- Man sea-carrier off Etart Point, Devon, on a record flight to Brazil. Before and during the war Dor- nier’s mainly produced flying boats. They were used, for instance, in the Norwegian fjords at the time of the German invasion in 1940, and operated against British naval and land forces. policy of France and of the coun- tries of the North Atlantic bloc connected with her, the Soviet Union and other peaceloving coun- tries will carry out all the neces- Sary measures to step up their armaments and to safeguard their security,” the Soviet note said. “The Soviet Union and other peace-loving countries are compell- ed to take without delay every necessary step to oppose the grow- ing armed forces of the aggressive States, which threaten the preser- vation of peace, with a strength not less powerful and with their readiness to defend and protect peace.” ' Molotov, to tremendous ap- plause, repeated the Soviet warn- ing that ratfication of the Paris agreements to rearm West Ger- many would “compel the Soviet Union to take measures no less mighty than the growing forces of the West.” Referring to the refusal of the Western Powers to take part in the recent European Security Con- ference in Moscow, Molotov said: “We see the difficulties which lie before us but we will not flinch from them.” He emphasized that the Soviet proposals for a European security pact could embrace every state in Europe and those outside of Europe, irrespective of their social and political regimes. The Paris agreements, he said, were incompatible with the Fran- co-Soviet treaty. They meant a further intensification of the armaments race and “a danger- ous playing with the idea of a new war.” “Word has gone round that a meeting of the four powers will be called in a few months,” Molotov said. “The Soviet people and gov- ernment cannot rely on empty hopes.” He added: “We say this to the French goy- ernment, we say this to-the French people, in fact we tell it to all who have ears to hear: The ratification of the Paris agreements will not take us by surprise.” U.S. to back German claim to Sudetenland BERLIN } Details ofa secret Bonn-Wash- ington agreément in which the U.S. undertakes to support, if necessary by force, Bonn “claims” to the Sudetenland and other East European territories, were disclos- ed last week. According to an East German broadcast, agreement* was signed by West German Chancellor Kon-! rad Adenauer and U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, during Adenauer’s recent visit to the United States. — Discussions are said to have tak-|. en place on October 29 in the U.S. Sate Department in Washington between Dulles, Adenauer, a rep- resentative of the U.S. War De- partment and a restricted number of other officials. The agreement under question was said to have been signed at the end of the discussion. Under it the Bonn government stated it would wait until after ratification of the Paris agreement : to raise with the signatories its territorial claims (in effect, the “claims” of Hitler). For its part the U.S. government undertook to give every support, including military, to the Adenauer government’s aggressive inten- tions. It is understood that the Aden- auer government was also strong- ly advised to play down claims to West Rhine territory for the time being, in order not to create diffi- culties over ratification of the Paris agreement. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — DECEMBER 17, 1954 — PAGE 3