ANTI-TEST CAMPAIGN
Pauling Refuses
To Name Aides
WASHINGTON, June 21. Dr. Linus Pauling, the Noble Prize-winning scientist, refused today to give Senate investigators a list of fellow scientists who helped his campaign against nuclear weapons tests. Dr. Pauling told the Senate Internal Security Sub-Committee he believed that in spite of any promises it might make, the committee would use the names for reprisal against those who helped him to gather signatures on a test ban petition to the United Nations.
Without invoking any constitutional privilege, he told the subcommittee: “My conscience will not allow me to protect myself by sacrificing the idealistic young people” who helped him.
“I have decided I am not going to comply with the request of this committee," he said- It was, he said, a matter of “morality, justice and conscience.” The sub-committee is investigating whether Communist propaganda efforts were to be found anywhere in the petition campaign.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19600623.2.112
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29238, 23 June 1960, Page 15
Word Count
152ANTI-TEST CAMPAIGN Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29238, 23 June 1960, Page 15
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in