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WHAT PRICE SURVIVAL?

secs, Nuclear war could

mean extermination

LONDON—Two thousand people in: London’s Central Hall listened breathlessly last week
while three eminent world scientists described in horrific detail the results of a global nuclear

war.

Prof.C. F. Powell, of Bristol University, British Nobel prizewinner, spoke of the “likeli-
hood” that the total population of the Northern hemisphere and perhaps that of the Southern

hemisphere would be exter-
minated.

Powell foreshadowed the
complete destruction of all
major centres of population,
grave radiation effects and

the wrecking of all economies..

He summed it up in this
way: “Absolutely everything
in our civilization that we
value will be destroyed.”

Linus Pauling, Nobel . Prize
winner, quoted a report from
the American Rand Corpor-

Nheat dumping hoosts U.S. trade
lt expense of Latin America

hONTEVIDEO-_U.S. dumping of agricultural products in Latin America is undermining
iM, “ations between countries and straining economies. Three countries most affected are
#8, Brazil and Peru, in all of which anti-U.S. sentiment has been most marked in recent

closer to

production, Soviet aim

MOSCOW-—Soviet universities and institutes this year are
emphasizing the practical training of students—in the words of
Mikhail Prokofiev, deputy minister of higher education, “bring-
ing the study process closer to production.”

This, Prokofeiv points out,
means that the colleges will
maintain closer contacts with
enterprises in industry. and
agriculture. Students of Mos-
cow’s Institute of Architecture,
for instance, will get practical
training on the biggest con-
struction jobs in the country.
In- addition, the institute has
production training workshops
where the students will pre-
pare for their practical train-
ing.

The latest in technology
will be available at Soviet
colleges, many of which have
new laboratories. Moscow In-
stitute of Geodesy, Aerial
Photography and Cartography
now has a laboratory of opti-
tical and radar _ geodesical
measurements, and Leningrad
Building Engineers Institute a
laboratory of plastic construc-
tional elements.

Moscow Institute of Auto-
mechanics plans its work in
contact with the Moscow Lik-
hachev Automobile plant, Vla-
dimir tractor plant and Stan-
As a result of

such contacts last year, experi-
mental work of considerable
value to industry was done.
Certain innovations were sug-
gested which found wide ap-
preciation at a number of
plants .of the automobile -and
machine-tool industries and
resulted in the saving of mil-
lions of roubles.

Leningrad Technological In-
stitute is maintaining contacts
with 180 enterprises in various
economic areas of the country.

Half a million people — one

quarter of .all students in
centres of higher education —
are now in the eastern regions
of the Soviet Union, Prokofiev
‘reported, and among institutes
organized this year have been
the Khabarovsk Motor and
Highways Institute, Akmolinsk
Agricultural Institute, Ussuri-
isk Mining and Metallurgical
Institute, Ust - Kamenogorsk
Road-Building Institute, and
the Vladimir Medical Institute.
Construction of a whole com-
plex of colleges is going on
in Krasnoyarsk.

ation, backed by the U.S. Air
Force, describing a “medium”
nuclear attack on. 150 Amer-
ican cities.

Of the 175 million people
in these centres 160 million
would be killed, Another 15
million would survive but of
them 14 million would die
from fall-out.

Between 10 and 50 mea-
ium nuclear bombs could kill
everyone in the British Isles.

The two scientists, together
with Prof. Marcus Oliphant
of Australia, has come from
the third conference of scien-
tists initiated by Canadian
millionaire Cyrus Eaton and
held last month in Kitzbuehl
and Vienna.

At the meeting, called by
the Campaign for Nuclear
Disarmament, they were in-
terrogated by television per-
sonality Ludovic Kennedy,
writer Margaret Lane, Neil
Lawson, Q.C., and Keith Kyle
political editor of the Econ-
omist.

Earlier,. questioned by Ken-
nedy, Pauling said that the
total effect of the testing of
nuclear weapons could be
150,000 defective _ child-
ren born in the future.

Every large bomb tested—
that is a bomb of 20 megaton
size-—-would seriously affect
the lives. and. wellbeing of
15,000 children.

Asked how these statistics
were arrived at, Dr. Pauling
said that it was of course im-

NATO general staff

gets another German

LONDON—Now in -Britain
to learn English, Major
General Foertsch, who spent
ten years in a Soviet POW
camp, has been appointed
NATO deputy chief of staff
for plans and policy.

The 58-year-old general
fought the allies in France
in the Second World War..He
was recommissioned in the

West German armed forces
in November 1956. :

He will take over his new
post: from: Britain’s. Air
Marshall Sir Hugh Constan-
tine next January. He willl
then -be promoted to lieu-
tenant general—rank he held
when captured on the Soviet
front.

possible to make radiation
experiments on human beings
but pointed out that every
animal, plant and other low-
er organisims showed muta-
tions from high energy rad-
iation whether from natural
or man-made sources.

Who can believe that man
was any different in this re-
spect? All biologists ‘Were
agreed in these general con-
clusions.

Discussing the .question of
the small proportion repre-
sented by 15,000 children in
the world’s population, Powell
said to applause:

“When we cease to have
solicitude for 15,000, where
do we place our values? What
shall we treasure?

Prof. Oliphant pointed out °
that the bulk of nuclear fall-
out so far had been over the
countries of the Northern
hemisphere.

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