GERM & CHEMICAL WAR WOULD RAVAGE WORLD
(10 a.m.) LONDON, July 22. If war came with such devilish weapons as bacteria and chemicals that would stunt the growth of men, animals and plants, the whole world would be devastated and revert to the agricultural peasant economy that prevailed in the Middle Ages, said the
atomic energy expert. Professor M. li. Oliphant, addressing a school children’s conference at Birmingham. He said that if only the world did not have to worry about making up what it lost by the war, it would not be a 40-hour week that the workers would be debating but a four-hour week.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22697, 23 July 1948, Page 5
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