Scientists. probing germ war charges already in Peking By ANNE DOOLEY | |Dean of Canterbury confirms germ war charges |Archbishop of York seeking ban on germ, napalm warfare PEKING LONDON Right Re¥, Hewlitt Johnson, The Archbishop of York, Dr. Dean of Canterbury, has just com- C. F. Garbett, last yeek declared jPletea a eareful examination here that the church should call for Of the evidence-on germ warfare. the international banning of germ The results will electrify Britain, warfare. we Canada and Australia, the Even if Christians failed to pre_ _ jer two Commonwealth coun- vent war, they still had a duty to BERLIN One of the greatest men of science told the World Peace Council in Berlin last week that the use of germ warfare by the U.S. in Korea and China was “‘one of the most sinister chapters in human history.’ (Professor Frederic Joliot-Curie, world-famous French atomic scientist and president of the council, added'that germ war was the worst of all perversions of science: {ties directly concerned because Sf their participation in the Ko-| ean war, Bet least electrifying will be vo testimony of the leaders of «. Christian churches in China. ane Christian doctors, Ses and laymen are involved a &@ Struggle on Chinese as well Son Korean soil,” the Dean re- eir own Ported, adding: “Tlearned with shame of this “ppalling inhuman deed; and With still deeper shame that it 1s practised by a nation which (cS the audacity to call itself Christian’ m9 The Dean, who left Peking by ' for Britain on July 2, after ie e-mile tour of China, was USiastic as he described his Mpressions, » ai “It is the speed of the change- ov fr on so monumental a scale | t . a ls breath-taking,” he said. a 3 Organization and the will 2 a Organized. From top to bot- . ©verything has changed over- Night.» im : an his travels he has had the mee of being able to com- ne China as it is today with veh Country as he found it 20 5 i 480 on a tour that took him whe borders of Tibet. ade contrast between 1932 Oe is amazing in every di- ion,” he declared. ~ DEAN OF CANTERBUR - ‘ Steppe ARCHBISHOP OF YORK restrain some of its worst hor- rors, he said, addressing the York Diocesan Conference. The Archbishop said however, he did not believe there was “a vestige of truth in the accusation that the allies have been engag- ing in microbe warfare.” Dr. Garbett said: “Some meth- ods of war which might conceiv- ably be employed are so mon- strously inhuman that they would brand with infamy the cause in which they were used. ; ‘Victory won by their means would be the triumph of bar- barism.” He also called on the church to demand the international banning of atomic weapons, the napalm bomb and obliteration bombing. Atomic weapons could in a minute ‘‘wipe out thousands and leave tens of thousands in agony,” he said. The napalm bomb caused “exceptionally ‘horrible and _ in- discriminate suffering and death.” He denied that ‘war is war” and every. weapon might jJegiti- mately be used. He disagreed, too, with the pacifist objection that so long as there was war it was useless to try to control its methods. “Though falling far- short of abolishing war, agreements in the past have been made and kept which have prevented or restrain- ed some of its worst excesses.’’ World - wide protest trial of Barcelona strikers torees dela tes he . LONDON Din ensth of world democratic i ‘on, united in condemning ip 1 Franto’s fascist dictator- ’ Alone stands between the 27 stein of the great (Barcelona Suton last year and long prison -~ices, perhaps death, typ St Week a Spanish military tiyf cet concluded its court mar- Lopez Raimundo, general Seep, ey of the United Socialist but Bo Catalonia, and 26 others, ty a flayed pronouncing sentence e of world-wide protest, ten a 27 were charged with at- 0 Ng the secret reorganization © outlawed United Sociailst » Publishing an ~illegal So- hewspaper in Catalonia distributing a Communist Paper, Mundo Obrero, pub- in France by Spanish ex- rea? Prosecutor demanded a 20- Shorten ence for Raimundo and 4 Sentences for the others. that Ports reaching London state tranggo mundo and his comrades a. ee the proceedings into Itsqy of the Franco regime leader Proudly admitting their Nove Ship of the general strike tage a *nt which presented the St oy, Uctatorship with its great- lenge since. the end of the Seg 3 years ago. nty-six Labor MP's have ‘added their voices to the pro- tests already made by British labor organizations and the In- ternational Brigade Association is calling for further protests in an effort to win freedom for the 27 prisoners. U.S. general : ired by duds BERLIN Japanese workers are sabotag- ing Amerian arms: for Korea. They have been so successful that General Van Fleet of the U.g Eighth Army, recently bitter- ly complained that most Japanese armaments were useless in Korea. These sensational facts were disclosed to delegates at the World Peace Council session here last week by the first Japanese speaker, Kazue Kawamura. He declared that the signing of the American - inspired “peace treaty,’ which provides for the continued American military oc- cupation of Japan, was “oreeted by the Japanese people as a day of national mourning.” Kawamura said that in the weeks following the signing the workers had organised nationwide strikes and protests. against y in sentences. While attention is focussed on the trial of the Barcelona strike leaders, word has just reached London that mass demonstratiors have forced Franco to oust Mayor Jose Moreno Torres of Madrid after a disastrous steretcar acci- dent in which 85 people died and 50 were gravely hurt. The accident was the worst in a series caused by the use of ancient streetcars which remained unrepaired despite increases in fares. > Opposition to fares increases in Barcelona was the first stage of the great general strike movement which spread throughout Catalonia last spring. ‘More than 100 people packed.. the streetcar — official capacity 48 — when it went out of con- trol down the grade of Toledo Street, jumped the track, tore through the railings of a bridge and crashed into the river bank. The driver reported afterwards that neither the hand nor elec_ tric brakes nor the reveres lever worked. Within an hour of the disaster thousands of angry people began pouring into Pyramid Square de- U.S. builds germ war — laboratory NEW YORK A new germ warfare laboratory to cost five million dollars is to be built on 795-acre Plum Island, in Long Island Sound, near here. First information about the project came from Washington on June 23, when evidence given to a closed Congressional appro- priations committee by Col. W. A. Carter, Jr., chief of the U.S. Army construction branch, was released. Asking for the $5 million, he said: be \ “The proposed facilities are re- quired in+«the immediate future to make possible the timely ac- complishment of the mission of the Chemical Corps, and to have a direct bearing on strategic plans and guidance promulgated by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “The importance and urgency of vigorously pursuing research in biological, chemical and _ radio- logical warfare have been. re- peatedly emphasized to the de- partment of defense and various advisory committees.” When the news was first pub- lished in the Long Island local newspaper, Newsday, on June 25, it aroused general protest. Significantly, although the widely-read Newsday splashed its sensational story throughout its pages on both 25 and 26, not a Single New York daily has chosen to pick it up. Opposition ranges from the Re- publican leader of Suffolk County in Long Island to the American Labor party in the same area. R. Ford Hughes, GOP leader, said, “Any program to use Plum Island as an experimental Jaboratory for bacteriological or chemical war- fare should certainly be opposed by all our public officials, partic- ularly our legislators.” manding punishment for those re- sponsible. Demonstrators marched to the: city hall carrying posters attack- ing the council, protesting against the inhuman living conditions in working-class areas and demand- ing fares cuts and a better trans- port service. Impromptu meetings, continu_ ed for the next fortnight until, on June 14, the Franco regime removed Mayor Jose Moreno Tor- res from office. ’ the discoveries of biology were be- ing used not to heal the sick but to start epidemics. He was applauded when he added that an international commission of scientists was al- ready in Peking to investigate the charges of germ warfare. Other experts would join them soon. When the proceedings opened the delegates from 70 countries— most of them distinguished fig- ures in the sciences, arts, or trade union movement—agreed to set up three working commissions. They were to discuss Germany, the Korean War, and the arms race and the need for a pact of peace between the Big Five. The commissions were to re- port back to the full council, whose main sessions have been held in public. The twin threats to peace of a rearmed Western Germany and an American-colonised Japan dom- inated early debates. Gordon Schaffer (Britain), first speaker in the debate, warned that both in West Germany and Japan the agreement concluded at Potsdam between the wartime Allies had been broken. “An attempt is being made to force a solution in Asia with- out the Chinese People’s Repub- lic, representing a quarter of the human race, without the people of India and without the Soviet Union,” he said. “In Europe the plain fact is that demands in Western Ger- many for the use of armed force against Germany’s new eastern frontier, backed as they are by shrill propaganda from America and Britain, are the blueprint for world war three.’’ Poland would defend herself if Western Germany’s rearmament were to lead to an attack upon the frontiers. In such circum- stances the Soviet Union was pledged to aid Poland, and the Soviet Union kept her pledges. Describing the growing inter- national mass resistance to an American-led war supported by Nazi generals, fascist politicians and cartels who wished to try once again to fight the war which Hitlér lost, Schaffer declared: “Make no mistake, the Am- erican policy is to recreate a ‘new Nazi Reich directed once More against the freedom of all European peoples, West and East alike, g “But if the leaders of Britain, France, Holland, Belgium sand Denmark wish to greet as allies those who ravaged and tortured their countries, they must expect the anger of their peoples.’’ If the French parliament rati- fied the Bonn contract he would not speak for the French people. Mass protest was growing in Western Germany and in Britain. “Engineers, railwaymen, distribu- tive workers and the cooperative movement have all declared their opposition,” he said. “Britain’s Labor party which so long backed the American al- liance has refused to accept the ‘Bonn proposals and demands that the people of Western Germany be consulted.” PAOIFIO TRIBUNE — JULY 11, 1952 — PAGE 3