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Protest

In only two countries last
Week was there any praise for
Britain’s first successful H-
test at Christmas Island in the
Pacifi¢ — South Korea and the
United States — and even

| there the praise was confined

to officials.
The official U.S. position
Was one of no comment, but

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American officials
claring they welcomed the
British tests. Their own much-
criticized series of tests is
due, weather permitting, at
any time.

Cho Chang Hwan, foreign
minister in the South Korean
regime of Syngman Rhee,

voiced the only open satisfac-

“For the children’s

March

of the placards carried by British mothers in a protest
through London streets headed by women Labor MPs.

ts. Rene Short, leader of the anti-H-test vigil, is shown (left)

British government spurns pleas Poland reaffirms
to call off rest of H-test series

greets

PAENY

ment was pleased Britain was
now an H-power.

Then he called on Britain
with the United States, to take
“drastic and decisive action
while they still had superior-
ity in modern weapons over
Russia.””

But, lunatic

beyond the

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knocking at

LONDON

More H-bombs — size secret, effect yet unknown — are to be exploded by Britain. This
Was the stark and short answer given by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in the House of

tests,»

Labor leader Hugh Gaitskell
’Ssked for, a’ statement on Bri-
'ain’s first H-bomb explosion.

Macmillan said: “The first
“Xplosion of a nuclear device
the present series took place
Yesterday in the South Pacific
Tom a high altitude.”

When a full scientific report
ine been made, he added,
hers would be a further state-

nt in the House of Com-

Ons, :

Gaitskell asked when such
A report could be expected?
“Nd what did the prime min-
€r think of reports in Japan

at the H-explosion effects
jtualled or exceeded those of

€ U.S. tests in the Bikini Is-
8, in which Japanese fish-

ermen were severely injured
by fall-out? |

Local fall-out, replied Mac-
millan was almost negligible
because of the high altitude of
the explosion, But when an-
other Labor MP, R. R. Stokes
asked him about the size of
the bomb exploded, he refus-
ed to answer.

The test, he claimed, “cer-
tainly places us in a better bar-
gaining position.”

John Strachey, Labor front-
bencher asked that Britain,
now its ability to explode the
bomb had been proved, should
agree with the West German
or any other government wish-
ing to suspend the tests.

®°mmons to. the anxious questions put by a dozen front and back bench Labor MPs last week.
_.. Brushing away the fears of the MPs, of the mothers of young children, of the whole
‘ation, Macmillan bluntly declared: “We shall of course continue with our present series of

with Labor member Dennis
Healey Macmillan sought to
cast doubts on the West Ger-
man appeal for a halt to the
tests.

He had received no such ap-
peal from the West German
government, he told Healey.
Later, however, he acknow-
ledged that the West German
parliament had made a unani-
mous appeal for disarmament
and for H-tests to be suspend-
ed.

To an appeal from Labor
member Frank Allaun that the
test explosions should be stop-
ped while the disarmament
sub-committee talked over U.S.
moves to stop nuclear weapon
production, the prime minister

Easter, in a brief exchangereturned a blunt “No”.

the door of No. 10 Downing Street.

fringe, there was a volume of
protest against the test.

INDIA: Premier Nehru said
the continuation of tests
“would only end in world dis-
aster on a tremendous scale.”

JAPAN: The Japanese gov-
ernment instructed its ambas-
sador in London to protest to
the British- government.

ACEO REAR ESE AaB ReEOBNA RADA

And at Lon-
don’s Kingsway Hall, Dr. Donald Soper, crusading Methodist
minister, is seen (right) placing a dove and cross symbol as a
token of opposition to the tests.

British H-test

were de-tion. He declared his govern-

A government statement in
Tokyo said that Britain would
be responsibile for all losses
suffered by Japanese nationals.

Students held a_ sit-down
protest demonstration outside
the British embassy. The Jap-
an Council Against Nuclear
Tests declared it believed 15
Japanese fishing boats may
have suffered damage from the
explosion.

Buddhist monks’ and nuns
staging a hunger-strike against
nuclear weapon tests marched
in protest through Nagasaki,
collecting signatures to a pro-
test petition as they went.

NEW ZEALAND: The New
Zealand Herald protested
against the British govern-
ment’s failure to notify New
Zealand that testing was about
to begin, saying such failure
“makes a mockery of Com-
monwealth ceoperation.”

“To® deny, even confidential
information to the prime min-
ister of a senior dominion ex-
ercising sovereignty’in the im-
mediate vicinity of the testing
grounds suggests a lack of
trust that will be widely re-
sented in this country,” it de-
clared.

AUSTRALIA: To quiet pub-
lic alarm, the Menzies govern-
ment announced that some 100
radiation stations in Australia
would be on the watch for any
undue rise in radioactivity that
may result from the Christmas
Island test.

SOVIET UNION: A _ joint
Soviet-Mongolian statement is-
sued after five-day negotiations
between government delega-
tions of the two countries: said
that the immediate discontinu-
ation of nuclear weapon tests
could: considerably ease inter-
national tension.

socialist solidarity

By GORDON CRUICKCHANK

WARSAW”

No force on earth can pre-
vent Poland from marching
with the revolutionary work-
ing class movements of the
world, Wladislaw Gomulka,
first secretary of the Polish
United Workers’ party said
last. week.

In a speech to the ninth plen-
um he said the road to social-
ism in Poland could be differ-
ent from that in ‘the Soviet
Union but that did not mean
denial of general principles
deduced from the experience
of socialist construction in the
Soviet Union.

“The concept of the Polish
road to socialism is our own,
but the idea of the national
differences of the’ road to so-
cialism was formulated by
Lenin,” he said.

Workers’ councils had been
created as an antidote to ail-
ments within the socialist sys- _
tem and_ to_‘restore. proper

meaning to the dictatorship of
the proletariat.

Though workers’ councils
traced their origin to Yugosla-
via, it was necessary to adopt
a different line of development
for them in Poland.

Some people’ would even
like workers’ councils in the
central boards of industries and
in government departments as
well. These notions had reveal-
ed the existence of a kind of
anarchist utopia.

Referring to relations be-
tween the state and the church
in Poland, Gomulka said they
wanted the Catholic Church
to march together with them
along the Polish road.

Speaking of the alliance be-
tween the United Workers and
United Peasant parties, he said
the later was being penetrated
by hostile emigre circles.

“We cannot tolerate this,
neither we nor the Peasant
party,” he said.

MAY 24, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 3

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