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Japanese unrest
laid to H-bomb

Ichiro Nakayama, Japanese dele-
gate to the International Labor Or-
ganization at Geneva _ recently
blamed the “insecure and restless
conditions” in his country on U.S.
H-bomb tests in the Pacific. And
the demonstration shown here'
(left) indicates popular feeling on
the H-bomb tests. The reactionary
policies of the Yoshida govern-
ment, its manoeuvres to retain
power, which recently precipitated
an uproar in the Diet (above) are
the prime reasons for political un-
rest. The Japanese Communist
party has announced it will at-
tempt to unite all democratic
forces to oust Yoshida from office.

BY ARTHUR CLEGG
When LONDON
Ment gt Will the British govern-
P Persecuting Phang Seng?

ho is
au ome oe Seng? A Malay-

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ils Sevens will soon be entering
they, “one Yeats is told by John
K™ocrats ; Of Malaya’s leading

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Malaya fre by the Britain-
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asked in Malay to exD.
was taking out the rice:

Phang Seng could not speak
He was therefore arrest-

Malay. aia

ed because “he could no
satisfactory explanation.

In court he explained that the
children were not well and, as os
wife also had to go to -wor
had taken them to look after t on
and the rice to give them a mea :

This reasonable ela oti

t accepted and Phang Seng

med rantineed to three _ years
imprisonment.

That was only last November.
He is still in prison and perhaps
his children are now starving, ry
he is not there to earn their food.

That, says Eber, is the sort ut
thing that the war In Malaya an
the Emergency Regulations mean
to simple people.

A barrister bo
educated at Harro
ed to Singapore in
after the' Japanese
aya was interned

i camp. é
se ae in 1945, he was retained

itish Military Administra-
bee v prosecutor of Japanese
War Criminals. :
He was also vice-]
Malayan Democrati
creator of the Pan
cil of Action.

rn in Malaya and
w, Eber return-
1939 and, soon
invasion of Mal-
in the notorious

-president of the
ce Union and a
-Malayan Coun-

ested and im-

In 1951 he was arr

prisoned without charge oF trial

leading Malayan democrat in
Britain to plead people’s cause

by the British authorities, but a
sustained campaign by his father
and friends eventually won release
ears.

Poeun is in Britain to plead for
the freedom of his countrymen and
to argue that such a policy would
help Britain, while the present
policy of war and repression hurts
Britain as well as Malaya.

Cobalt

most outstanding physicists.

to. . . . To judge from the great
Krakatoa explosion of the eighties,
much of the material would be
carried several times around the
earth.”

No “one could tell where it
would settle down.

“It is terrible,” he added, “that
a sufficiently large group of mad-
men, if such existed, should have
this possibility open to them.”

There was no doubt that as, in
principle, a hydrogen bomb could
be made of any size the maker
likes, it might lead to an explosion
of theoretically unlimited violence.

“In a sensé,” said Sir George,
“all big bombs are _ inefficient.
They wast their force in destroy-
ing too completely the objects
near them.

“Even the original atom bomb
is too vowerful. It would be even
more formidable if it could be re-
placed by ten smaller bombs, each
using a tenth of the material.

“But this is difficult, if not im-
possible, and I suspect that the
less powerful bombs, which we
read have been developed for tac-
tical purposes, are less powerful
largely because they, fail to ex-
plode a good deal of the material
from which they are made.”

In a further reference to the
radioactive effect of a cobalt bomb,
Sir George said:

“Some places indeed might be
more affected than others, but not
necessarily the places near the ex-
plosion. Nor would it be possible
even to ensure the enemy got more
than one’s own side.”

He was sure everyone could for-
get about rumors of “a mysterious
thing called the nitrogen bomb.”

“I do not agree,” he concluded,
“that these kinds of nuclear re-
action . . . have no practical fu-
ture. On the contrary, I believe
that in the long run it will be
precisely these reactions that will
supply the energy of the world.

“4 find it difficult to believe
that-a reaction that has actually
released large quantities of ener-
gy cannot be tamed and made to
do so controllably. When this is
achieved the problem of the sup-
ply of energy on our plane will
have been solved.”

bomb

world suicide

LONDON

As a weapon, the cobalt bomb is absurd; it is world suicide, not
war. This is the opinion of Sir George Thomson, one of Britain’s

Ina broadcast which has stirred wide public discussion, Sir George
told BBC listeners: “There would be no controlling where it got

‘Vietnamese
cannot be

defeated’

By STANLEY HARRISON
WARSAW

Back from a 2,000-mile tour of
liberated Indochina, Polish writer
W. Zukrowski has published an
“open letter to thinking French-
men” in the Warsaw press. He
writes:

“The great victory of the Viet-
namese nation — greater than
those won on the battlefields —
is that despite the dreadful eight-
year war they are perfectly able
to distinguish the colonisers from
the French people, and American
intervention from the will of the
French people.

“I was surprised by this extra-
ordinary maturity of judgment
among the peasants and among the
front line soldiers.

“The Vietnamese willingly spoke
French with: me, were proud of
their knowledge of French liter-
ature and culture. ...

“For you this war is lost. This
war is dreadful folly.

“All the raw materials and goods
which you extort from the Viet-
namese, together with their sweat,
blood and life, you could get by
signing trade agreements, by con-
cluding peace with a free Viet
Nam.

“An awakening nation cannot be
defeated.”

Indians occupy
French colony

MADRAS

The tiny settlement of Yanam
on the east coast of India has
thrown off French rule and hoist-
ed the Indian flag, according to
an Indian news agency.

About 200 refugees from French
India marched into Yanam .from
Indian territory and took over the
administration, the revort said. The
mayor of Yanam’ led them.

Yanam—area: 5% square miles,
popularion: 5,835—is the smallest
of France’s four remaining terri-

tories in India.

‘Lost tribes’ of New Guinea live
in ‘Shangri-la’ behind mountains

PORT MORESBY

One group of 4,000 among the
Papuan “lost tribes” just discover-
ed in New Guinea live in a 20-mile-
long natural fortress. It has no
aecess except a mountain pass at

000 feet. :
: The Australian aerial surveyors

who were the first white men to see

them have spotted an estimated }

100,000 natives living in fertile
ocked valleys. ;
ane natives gaped and pointed
to their plane as it flew over the
valleys and the surveyors, unable
to decide whether they were hostile
or friendly, did not attempt to

landing.
tte) away behind high moun-
tain ridges in sunny, cultivated
valleys, the “lost tribes” are believ:
ed to have had no contact with the
world for thousands of years.

A spokesman for the survey
group called it a “new and better
Shangri-la” — the name of the
landlocked paradise in James Hil-
ton’s novel The Lost Horizon.

One valley was described as “a
little England 5,000 feet above the
sea, with lush pastures irrigated
by rivers.” :

The survey team has been chart-
ing the mountain jungles of Papua
in a twin-engined Anson plane and
spotted the land of “lost tribes”
when flying over the Baiyer River
toward the southern highlands.

Patrols are now being organized
to explore the vast new-found tract
of unmapped country in Australian
southeast New Guinea.

It is estimatedsthat foot patrols
will take till the end of the year
to reach the new-found “Shangri-
Last

The aerial survey is believed to
have saved the foot -patrols ‘wo
years of work by the information
it has collected. Much of the region
was photographed from the air.

John Arthur, New Guinea avia-
tion director, said the tribesmen
were living “in fairly advanced ag-
ricultural villages, well designed,
surounded by great moats.

“The gardens are similar to
market gardens you see in civilis-
ed areas — rectangular plots with
rows of crops.” In one valley the
cultivated fields were surrounded
by trees and hedges.

He said the area was extremely
dangerous for flying. Peaks tower-
ed to an estimated 14,000 feet. The
only approach was from the south,
where the mountains were a mere
6,000 feet.

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