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With courage and clari-
ty,
Washington, Thurs, — Th
United
States
Government
should compensate the 23 JapaNese seamen for injuries if they
were “innocuat victims” of aj
Mr Lester Pearson,
Canadian Minister for Ex. -
ternal Affairs, has boldly,
brought’ into the ~ open’
questions whichhave been
troubling not only allies of
nid-Pacific atone blast which
rained dangerous radioactive!
ashes on their fishing vessel, j
Mr Sterling Cole, Chairman of{
the US but also US leaders
like Mr Adlai Stevenson. These questions revolve
the Congressional
Atomic!
Energ:) Commission, said yes-!
terday. He urged a full investi-,
gation of the Incident which
around conflicting ideas of
what is actually proposed,
occurred oft Bikini Afolt in the
and perhaps even planned,
“under
the
new so-called
policy of “massive atomic —
In the Diet, opposition mem-
“bers yesterday raised the In-
retaliation.” - a
Mr Pearson reasonably
wants assurances of consultations and agreement
between the US and herale:
Foreign Minister Okazaki
the Government would demand : Hes on the nature, timing |
compensation for affected fisherand consequences of any
men if the incident took place
such fateful and decisive ’
‘outside the clesed area tupon
stroke.
Fcompletion of investigations,“ phe question was whether the
“The advocates of “perie incident took place insidé or outpheral. strategy” and”
side of the area, and the Gov‘massive atomic’ retalia-"—
ernment had entrusted scientists
to make a thorough investigation
tion” have, in principle,:
TA sm Rs terme be eet
cident while the Maritine Safe“ty Agency claimed that it took
place outside the US-proclaimed
closed area, says Yomiuri.
on this point, he said. -
Answering Rightist and Leftist
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on at Tokyo Uni
soital.
But Professor K. Shimi ZU, the
*urgéoa on
rze,
iong range tre roent, plus frei
blood trarsfusion, there
no fear of death,
,
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suda today Is undcrgoing a
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of tests and lreetmentg at
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we have resorted to global
atomic war to meet the _
Communist threat in -
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pertinently asked: “Would=*:
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Greece and Turkey?... Or ©.
ots
to counter.the - Berlin
“blockade?”* creent
He takes it for- granted,
that this would not’ have
been done, an assumption
- which, right or wrong, .-
sina > Lantatage aot
nese victimized by nuclear weas
pons folowing Wirochima and
Nagasaki, are all expected td
survive rhe burns they suffered
from the “death dust”
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As Mr. Stevenson has
implies that the policy of ©
“massive retaliation” is as
‘empty as Mr Dulles’ illadvised- and hastily disezrded election’ pledge to
“liberate” satellite peoples
behind the Iron Curtain.
Dag Mea tae tall dy “ ced
The crew of the Fukurya
Maru, the third group of Japa:
war.
-
If this interpretation is’
correct, critics must insist
_that ambiguous or hollow . -
. Warnings are worse than
no pledge at all.
incorrect,
Mr
If it is
Fearson’s
questions—in the best in- ~
teresis of the US and the. .
rest of the free
weorld—
must be frankly end fully
answered. -
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In the Lower House Fisheries
Committee, Director-General of .
the Maritime Safety Agency Den}
Yamaguchi testified that. the incid rt took place 14 miles outside
ite closed area according te an
strong and plausible argue
- ments on _their side. But
*&
‘there are inevitably valid
doubts and fears that, in
\
a bid to stop a local war,
“retaliation” will succeeds
only in opening a. world ;-
Socialist membera, the Foreign
Minister revealed that no official
notice had Leen reecived from
the US on the cstablishricnt of]
a chosed area in the Bikini Atoll,
, rough the Government was officielly not fied of a sksailar zone
in the Eniwetok Atoll*in 1952.
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