Russian Bomb Test.

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 September 1946, Page 8

Russian Bomb Test.

Senyeon Alexandrov, one of two official Russian observers of the Bikini bomb tests, said at San Francisco that Russia planned to hold similar tests and that the observations at Bikini would be helpful. Asked how soon Russia would hold the tests, Adexandrov said: “In the measurable future.” Then, with a chuckle, he added that Russia would invite one American reporter to the tests. That, he said, was the number of Russian correspondents invited to Bikini. Views on Forced Unionism Referring to the present necessity of a workman having to join a union even if he did only one or two days’ work in a year, Cr. L. A. Higgins said at a meeting of Ihe Waimea County Council that, lie had never come across anything so mad or so stupid in his life. It. appeared to him to be out of all reason, and would probably lead such a man to refuse to do the work. -Evidently it was the law these days, but it was one-, which should be altered if this was at all possible.

Famine in Europe Letters and postcards from France, Sweden, Italy, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary received recently by members of the ■Wellington Esperanto Club nearly all told of near famine . conditions in Europe. “Only by these intimate, personal letters are the terrible privations of the European people brought home to us,” said the secretary, Mr R. Dearnley. “Their need is urgent, and, if we can assist our Esperanto friends in the distressed areas we certainly shall.”