ATOMIC BOMB POLICY

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 306, 25 September 1945, Page 7

ATOMIC BOMB POLICY

President Working On Problem (Received September 24, 11 p.m.) WAiSiHINGTON, September 23. President Truman told the Press that he would make a decision as to the Administration's policy regarding the atomic bomb when the time came. He added that he was working on the problem with a Congressional committee. So far, no decision had been made. The Chancellor of the University of Chicago, Mr. Robert Hutchins, announced the formation of an institute to apply the discoveries in atomic research, to such problems as cancer, heredity, and growing old. He said that studies in nuclear physics had revealed many new types of radiations, some of which could now be produced by new methods which allowed accurate control of the' application of these radiations to living tissues, organisms, and biological systems. “We can make new attacks on disease,” he said. “Science, for example, now knows 290 chemical compounds which cause cancer. By replacing the normal atoms in these compounds with radio-active atoms, these compounds can he followed in the animal body and the methods by which they produce cancer may possibly be discovered.” Plea For World Co-operation.

In a speech at Newcastle today, the President of the Board of Trade, Sir Stafford Cripps, emphasized the need for world co-operation to keep the peace. The atomic bomb, like the sword of Damocles, would hang over the heads of the people of the world till they were able to devise some effective means ot removing its danger, declared Sir Stafford. A world security organization was the only possible alternative to the destruction of the world. Many people felt that, in spite of whatever they were doing along the line of international agreement and co-operation, they must nt the same time be prepared for its failure and for the recrudescence of Power politics, backed up by great navies, armies, and air forces. They failed to realize, however, that with the invention of the atomic bomb the whole scene bad been changed radically and completely, . and that if there was another war civilization would be destroyed. . “This matter is essentially a yob in which driving power must come from the common men and women throughout the world.” he said. “I have no doubt of the willingness of the statesmen, but the task is so great and urgent that we cannot hope to carry it through unless we have the driving power of world public opinion behind it.”