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Y FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1957

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THE INSIDE

STORY

of the 18 West German
Scientists who refused

to make nuclear weapons

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PAGE 10

End ‘suicidal madness’ of
tests, say British women

and
“sin

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te British Cooperative
me ners Guild, at its annual
Ngress in Leicester, unan-
"ously adopted a resolution
ing the British government
® take a lead in banning the
ae after Mrs. Rita Smythe,
pala! committee member,
ed them “suicidal mad-
and said “some nation
where has got to call a

ha al
8 me has got to give a sign of

gi Japan, the Federation of
€nts plans demonstrations
’iNnst the tests, starting May

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Throughout the world this week, and particularly in Britain
Japan, public clamor for ending of all nuclear tests was
ng.

In Britain, the British Peace Committee has launched a
nal petition against the tests.

Wismer heads board

in lumber talks

VICTORIA, B.C.
Gordon Wismer, former at-
torney - general, has been
named chairman of the con-
ciliation board appointed to
hear the wage dispute between
Coast lumber operators and
the International Woodwork-
ers,

The IWA has not yet made
its wage demand public, but
it is expected to ask for an
increase of around 20 percent.

A USS. general has admitted that he
E. H. Norman, Canadian ambassador to Egyp
whose political use of them to persecute No

The general is Major-General Charles A. Will
ligence

ae over security. reports on the late
to U.S. congressional committees
nan drove him to commit suicide in Cairo.

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oughby, former chief of intel-
to. General Douglas MacArthur during the Allied occupation of Japan.

A recent dispatch to the Toronto S:ar from Baltimore, Maryland, quoted Wil-
loughby as acisieabe in an interview thit the reports on Norman were among two

Continued on back page—See NORMAN CASE

[A-BOMB STILL CLAIMS VICTIMS|

This was Hiroshima after the A-bomb fell. Now, 12 years later, the bomb is still claiming

its victims. Eight deaths this year have been attributed by Japanese doctors to the dread
radiation disease. The latest victim, last. week, was Shizuto Iki, chief of the secretariat of
the Hiroshima procurator’s office, who died of acute myeloid leukemia.

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