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nitions, it does not destroy \phys-
ical property.”’

Brig.-Gen. William M, Creasy,
general commanding the U.S.
Army Chemical Corps Research
and Engineering Command, told
the American Women’s Patriotic
Conference in January:

“The weapons (biological and
radiological) which we have un-
der development may ‘provide an
opportunity at the smallest log-
istical cost to reduce an enemy’s
ability to resist.”

The general added:

“Germ warfare must be an as-
set and not. a liability. I am sure
you will agree with me.’’

In fact, ever since the begin-
ning of:the Korean war, Ameri-
can generals have openly boasted
that it will be ‘‘won’”’ not by
American soldiers fighting on
the ground, but by hew and se-
cret weapons.

Mr. Herbert Hoover repeated

this point only very recently

when he addressed the American

‘Republican convention at Chic-

ago,

In fact, in an entertainingly
subtle attempt to deny the evi-
dence I have given that germ
bombs have been dr@pped on
China, the ,schedule journalist,
Mr. Chapman Pincher, in The
Daily Express wrote:

“The U.S. has probably spent
more than $200,000,000 on germ
weapon research, Only a gul-
lible man could believe that‘such
crude weapons could be the re-
sujt.”

He promises us: ‘If bacterial
weapons are ever used they will
deliver concentrated germs as
fine mists intended to infect peo-
ple directly.’’

e

How is it possible to ignore,
however, the evidence of the
two American airmen, Lieut.
Kenneth Enoch and pilot John

DEAN OF CANTERBURY

Quinn, now prisoners, who were
trained to drop germ bombs?

I have brought back with me
from China a facsimile copy of

the 36-page report the two men ,

drew up in their desire to make
some atonement for tl crime
they committed.

This document, with, its. de-
tailed notes on lectures given to
Air Force crews on the methods
of bacteriological warfare, and
how they dropped cannister . of
isects in Korea, rings completely
true,

If it rang false in any particu
lar, I am sure some newspaper
would haye hastened to publish
it, with commentary. Instead
we have had the commentary,
but no publication of the report
itself.

I had the opportunity of meet-
ing Wilfred Burchett, sometime
correspondent of ths Daily Ex-
press, who had just returned
from interviewing both men; he
vouches for the complete ac-
curacy of their voluntary state-
ments and notes that Quinn, as
a devout Catholic, was relieved
to have the opportunity of cdn-
fessing.

He had been most uneasy
when given this terrible task.

Evidence of germ war is na-
turally much harder to collect
than evidence of atom-bombing.
It destroys only the unprotected
hitman body, It has failed in
China because of the extensive
precautions taken ever since the
first pile of suspect insects was
found upon the now.

Thousands of men and women
can testify to seeing the “duq@”
bombs. come down, releasing
their contents, ‘which the whole

The facts on germ war

population then hastens to de-
stroy through burial or fire.

Journalists totally ignorant of
Chinese ways have made fun of
the picture I gave of masses of
Chinese children collecting the
germ-carrying insects in bottles
with chopsticks.

If they had ever seen the
speed and accuracy with which
the Chinese use chopsticks they
would realize that no instrument
could be more effective for
speedily trapping a number of
small objects, such as insects,
and popping them into a bottle
without contact with the fingers.

I could, had I:the time, de-
scribe many other ingenious im-
plements, invented by the chil-
dren themselves,: for catching
flies in the air, for instance,

The manifesto of China's
leading churchmen, which I
brought back with me, is not
based on hearsay. {

Hundreds of Christians and
their ministers have, as they
themselves told me, taken part
in these activities and the other
preventive measures plannd. by
the Chinese government,

@ We cannot all go to China
to examine the evidence for our-
selves, but we can painstakingly
and honestly examine the evid-
ence which is now coming out of
China.

@ We can and we must put it
before others as well — thous-
ands, millions of others — yntil
the fact gains credence,

@ I am preparing a pamphlet
which will be published by the
British China Friendship Associ-
ation, under tha title, “I Appeal,”
which will bring together the
evidence already available. It
must be sold in hundreds of
thousands of copies.

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and down the country at which
the facts will be laid before you.
Come to them, and bring others:
with you,

We can stop germ. warfare.
At first it will take firmness
and courage,

We are faced by many ordin-
ary, well-meaning people, who,
as it were, have closed their eyes
and put their fingers to their
ears, because’ they cannot bear
to face the truth about this mat-
ter:

But, it,is. not .only our duty
to the people involved ‘to show
that courage and. determina-
tion. .It.is urgently, necessary
for the protection of the hu-
man race.

In reporting my press confer-
ence the Manchester Guardian
called me ‘the most credulous
traveller since Marco Polo.”

Now when Marco Polo travek
ed to China. at the beginning of
the 14th century and came back
to describe the wonders of the
Chinese court and civilzation of
those days, people said: ‘‘He’s
mad!”’

It took centuries before his-
torical evidence proved the es-
sential accuracy of Marco. Polo’s
description of these matters.

It will take much less than a
decade, however, before the
wonders of the new China which
I have seen become well known
and established as facts —— along
with the facts, as frantically con-
cealed by propaganda today, that
this war is as inhuman and dan-
gerous in all its implications as
it could conceivably be.

We must do, everything, and
more than everything, to bring
it to an end,

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST 22, 1952 — PAGE 9