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As a physician and a citizen I

deem it my duty to speak up
against the cynicism and com-
Placency in some quarters with
Which ever greater horrors are

accepted. Silence, in effect,
Means, complicity. Plato in The
ublic, as quoted by that

great Canadian physician, Sir
William Osler, (The Old Hu-
Manities and the New Séience),
Teferred to “the hardened heart,
the lie in tha soul,” which char-
acterized his times. Surely we
have advanced over the 2,000
year interval.

Are we to behave like a war-
Ten of rabbits, paralysed by the
eady stare of a cobra, waiting
to be swallowed up? A popular
American magazine (Newsweek)

recently referred to us the use.

Of radio-active dust, scattered
Over pastures, that would be
Swallowed by the cattle. excreted
M their milk, drunk by unsus-
becting citizens who would die
-& Slow, horrible death from ra-
Giation sickness,, or an even
Slower death from cancer of\ the
: bowels, They might have been
reading a new way to bake a
take
The only possible justification
oY War lies in liberating people
from oppressive conditions, Lib-
frating them into eternity by
°rror weapons obviously makes
any war unjust per se.
Bacteriological
test threat to humanity, the
B” of AIBCD warfare (‘‘A” for
atomic, “B” for bacteriological,
“C” for chemical and “D’” for
death) first came to public know-
ledge following World War II;
eithough the Japanese Army, as
eed in the war crimes trials
i 1949, had been preparing for
pamnnce 1935 on the direct order
pr eberar Hirohito. They had
sO used bacteriological war-
sia against the Chinese on a
ey “small” scale (plague
: typhoid) in 1940 and 1942.

ees were planning to use it
& large scale in 1945 when
‘ae Situation was getting des-
“s ate, but were unable to do
as the Soviet armies too quick-
Y Over-ran their germ factories

Ww
eee were located in Manchu-.

1 The United States has recent-
iia. €en accused by the Korean
Usin Chinese governments of
“Rie this weapon on an ex-
an Ive scale in China and Ko-
ich Since January 28, 1952.
& serious accusation must,
ioe be proven or dis-
reas with a clear conscience
atio elcome a scientific investi-
Licks by neutral scientists.
. Set it started now.

‘Stas following facts have been
itea i vas to show why the Un-
t tates and the other coun-
a Concerned must consent to

Sperdlal investigation simi-

'demics in

warfare,. the’

Germ wa

rfare:

the ultimate

horror

A paper by Dr. F. A. WALTON

lar to that outlined above or be
judged guilty by default:
1 Both sides in Korea agree
* that there are serious eDpl-
North Korea and
China. Why are there no epi-
demics in South Korea where
conditions are known to be high-
ly suitable for epidemic spread?
There were no serious epi-
demics during World War
TI despite the desperate housing
situation and food shortages
many countries,
™ United States politicians and
generals are constantly tell-
the world they have new
secret weapons. For example,
early in January, 1952, General
Bradley told the Senate Armed
Services Committee, “We have
a definite military plan under
which we will endeavor to bring
the fighting to an end. etait
we use this plan, it will be as
spectacular as anything that has
happened in the Korean war So

fares i
A It is an open secret that
™* yacteriological warfare has
been in the process of prepara-
tion in the United States since

1942.

ing

5 In their denials of using
* pacteriological warfare Sec-
retary of State Acheson and
others do not condemn the idea
of bacteriological warfare, nor
do they deny their preparation

for it,
6 ‘Special teams. apparently
* equipped with the necessary

serums and vaccines were in ac-
tion in South Korea in a sur-
prisingly short time. :
The suggestion that the In-
* ternational Red Cross a
estigate the issue is open to
iontibn in that Dr. Otto Leh-
ner, who gave Hitler’s concen-
tration camps a elean Dill of
health during World War II, is
the senior Red Cross delegate in
the Far East. (National Guard-

ian, March 12, 1952.)

The United States and Jap-
. an did not ratify the Geneva
Convention of June 17, 1925,
banning germ warfare and other
means. of annihilation.
Thirty-nine other nations had
ratified it by 1935. ..(National
Guardian, March 12, 1952.)

mass

All efforts by world scien-

tists (including those of the
United States) to obtain United
Nations action on control of bac-
teriologica] warfare were ‘frus-
trated by the U.S. stand against
destruction

control of mass

weapons.

Europe

By RALPH PARKER

MOSCOW

RITAIN’S competitors in the

new markets for high-grade
textiles are closely watching of-
ficial British, reactions to agree-
ments reached by the British
delegation to the International
Economic Conference.

Merchants of many lands, par-
ticularly Switzerland and Belg-
ium, are preparing to take ad-
‘vantage of any failure of the
British ta supply orders.

Their attitude leaves no doubt
that British exporters will have
to be on their toes in the face of
the keenest competition from
countries where the textile and
clothing trades are in the throes
of a crisis,

Arising out of the conference,
a Committee for the Promotion
of International, Trade has been
established, on which, when it
is fully constituted, there will
be three British members.

40. The’. people who have
vaporized others with
atomic bombs and who have
fried others: alive with gasoline
jelly, without a blush or an
apology, can hardly pleas injured
innocence, ™

11 Dr. O. M. Solandt, chair-

man of Canada’s Defense
Research Board, said recently
(Vancouver Sun, March 24,
1952) that ‘there is a strong
possibility of bacteriological
warfare being used in the next
war. How does he know? Can-
ada has a germ “factory” at Suf-
field, Alberta.

tip Nazi Walter

Schreiber, brought to the
-U.S. to work in its Global Pre-
ventive Medicine Department by
the U.S. air force in, 1951, was
head of Hitler’s bacteriological
warfare department. . (Schrieber

was ousted last month as a re-
sult of popular protest.)

13 Charges of use of germ
* warfare came when U.S.

General

‘ plans to extend the war by bomb-

ing and blockading China had

encountered strong resistance
among United States allies.
Newsweek (March 10, 1952)

said the U.S. could defy its al-
lies only if “‘the entire basis of
American policy is changed.”
(Germ warfare could be initiat-
ed secretly without Allied con-
sent.) ”

A perusal of the above at
least makes it evident that pre-
parations for bacteriological
warfare are well underway. *

The seriousness of the charge
which has been levelled compels

‘the accused to submit to an im-
partial investigation.

.

Are a few ‘‘scientists,” hidden
by a veil of secrecy, brewing
their witches’ cauldron, unaf-
fected by public opinion, as yet
at any rate; going to be aHowed
to plot the destruction of the
human race, the destruction of
you and me?

We are not concerned here
only with the charges that bac-
teriological warfare has been
employed in Korea. But we are
here also to condemn even the
preparations for bacteriological
warfare for the preparations in
themselves are a monstrous per-
version of science.

Since time began the nobility
of man has been most fully ex-
pressed in his striving to con-
quer nature. To this end, to
the conquest of bacteria, the
great fedical scientists have de-
voted their livgs. Now man, hav-
ing risen above the animals and
insects, descends to his lowest
level to infect flies and rats with
typhus and cholera so they may
in turn, infect man. This is
more than a_ perversion ‘of
science, it is the negation of
the life process itself.

*" On no grounds whatsoever

can it be justified. One must

either speak out against it and

Place oneself on the side of

science and humanity, or remain

Silent and accept as his: ally

typhus-infected rats, fleas and.

flies. : j :

@ Abridged text of a paper:
read to the Third British.
Columbia Peace Conference-
by Dr. F, A. Walton.

eyes Soviet trade

It has been tentatively decid-
ed to re-convene the commit-
tee in the early autumn probab-
ly in Western Europe.

Many substantial business
deals have been concluded since
the conference’s formal pro-
ceedings ended.

The French group’s turnover

‘is estimated at 30,000 million-

francs, agreements having been
reached with the USSR. China,
Poland, Rumania and (Czecho-
slovakia,

Belgian businessmen have ar-
ranged a $10 million deal with
China and have sold garments
to the USSR.

Italian firms have arranged

exchange of spare parts for Fiat
cars for Albanian chrome.

One Ceylon businessman has
sold large quantities of tea and
shellac to the USSR. ;

Austro-Hungarian trade will
benefit as_a result of an agree-

ment unblocking the clearing
account between the two coun-
tries. There will now be a re-
sumption of Hungarian wheat
deliveries to Austria.

Italian shipyards received or-
ders for six vessels for delivery
to the USSR.

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