Democrats Play Into Hands of Mccarthy on Army Probe
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Eisenhower Lies Build a Labor Party Note! About No Need THE MILITANT To Fear H-Bomb PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE By Art Preis Vol. X V III - No. 15 >267 NEW YORK. N. Y.. MONDAY. APRIL, 12, 1954 PRICE: 10 CENTS In a special A pril 5 broadcast intended to allay the mounting terror here and abroad over disclosure of the world-destroying power of the H-bomb, Eisenhower lied: “ I assure you we don’t have to fear . we don’t have to be tually to conceal the really awe hysterical.” some scope of destructiveness of If there is no reason to fear, a single H-bomb of the March why did they try to hide the 1 type. For it can do a lot more blood-chilling: facts about the H- than take out “any city.” Even the 1952 “baby” device was re Democrats Play Into Hands bomb exploded on March 1? Why did the Atomic Energy Commis vealed to have a mushroom sion keep silent until now about spread of a hundred miles. Every the results of the first hydro thing under that umbrella would gen blast in Nov. 1952? be subject to a deadly shower of Only after the horrifying facts radiation, not to speak of broil had leaked out piecemeal — fol in g heat. lowing the outcry in Japan about “The 1952 blast was exploded Of McCarthy on Army Probe the bu rn in g o f 23 fisherm en 80 at ground level,” observes the miles from the center of the April 1 Scripps-Howard report, March 1 detonation — did the “which probably would not be White House and AEC finally the method used in a wartime McCarthy Agrees to Probe, Provided ... decide to give us “the truth.” attack unless a specific, pin What we have been told of point target was the objective. Don’t Let Them Drag Share Guilt ficially is still not about the lat Exploded in midair . the area est bomb, immeasurably more of total destruction and severe powerful and deadly than the damage would have increased by several multiples . The des With GOP first, but about the “baby” H- Us into Indo-China W ar bomb “ device” that “only” wiped truction produced by heat and out a coral island, leaving a mile- the injury by the intense, instant Eisenhower and Dulles threaten to turn the Indo- long, 175-foot deep crater in the radiation of the fusion bomb China war into another Korea. They are talking: in most would have been correspondingly On Sears ocean floor. belligerent language. American military personnel, dis increased in area, only slightly We are given this obsolete — guised as “technicians,” are al- > By George Breitman and long-known — information diminished in intensity.” ready aiding the French invaders going. W all Street would long ago only because “a clamor to let Commenting on Strauss’ state in Indo-China. This country is have sent troops too, if the ad APRIL 6 — On April Fools’ Day the Senate investigating sub the public know the power of the ment, science expert William L. supplying two-thirds of the money ministration did not fear popular hydrogen bomb was rising,” ad Laurence of the N.Y. Times and arms to keep the invasion reaction, particularly after the committee unanimously selected Samuel P. Scars, Boston attor mits the March 31 N.Y. Times. wrote on Murch 31: “However, demonstration of the people’s •But Eisenhower and his AEC d e stru ction by fir e w ould be hostility toward the Korean in ney, as special counsel of the aides are not giving us the full much greater than destruction tervention. “There is much fear committee’s projected probe into truth. They admit to something by blast. The lim it of incendiary we are being sucked into the McCarthy’s dispute with the A r Expect Big Leap my. Both the date and the man horrible — they can hardly deny action would cover a diameter Indo-China war,” wrote Scripps- it — in order to minimize and of fifty miles, or a total area Iloward foreign editor Ludwell were symbolic of this probe, cover up a worse danger. They of almost 2,000 square miles.” In Jobless After Denny on April 5. He added: which was promised almost a month ago and still hasn’t got. are like the old-fashioned den London, the world’s largest “Recognizing the lack of en started. tist who jabbed a pin in your city, is only 693 square miles. thusiasm for its get-tough-in- rump just when they yanked on Los Angeles, fifth largest, is June Graduations Asia policy, the administration is The special counsel is supposed to run the probe for the commit your tooth. The sudden sharp 451; while New York, seventh Based upon what Business now trying to convince Congres tee, and to run it impartially so pin-prick was supposed to dis on the list in area and with the Week calls “dubious samples,” sional loaders of the extreme as to bring to light the facts tract you from the agony when most population, is 319 square the Census Bureau’s figures on seriousness of the Communist that will make possible a judg your tooth was wrenched. miles. A ‘'baby” H-bomb not only unemployment still show a rise pressure in Indo-China. .” ment on the veracity of McCar Thus, when Admiral Lewis L. could “take out” New York City for March, usually a month when 'Serious for whom? Not the thy’s and the Army’s charges Strauss, chairman of the Atomic — kill every single inhabitant — the number of jobless declines American, French or Indo-Chinese and countercharges. Energy Commission, issued his it could “take out” virtually the several hundred thousand. The people. This war on the part of The first public statement statement and comments on whole state of New Jersey. latest report, issued April 2, re France is just a naked imperialist Sears made after being appoint March 31, he said that an H- The i March 1 bomb was sup vealed an additional 54,000 list grab, an invasion to steal the ed on April 1 was: “I have not bomb can be made “large enough posed to be 10 megatons power ed as unemployed, bringing the country from the Indo-Chinese. taken a position publicly or pri to take out a city . any city.” (a megaton equals the explosive total to a peak of 3,725,000. The Vietminh government was vately” on McCarthy or McCar Now, that would seem to be a power of 1 million tons of TNT) It is quite evident, however, recognized by treaty back in thyism . candid admission and a pretty or double the Nov., 1952, explo that considerable finagling was 1946. The F rench tore up th is McCarthy himself probably terrifying prospect. sion. But, admitted iStrauss, “ the done to keep the figures below treaty and treacherously attacked never told a bigger lie. But to say that the H-bomb yield” of the March 1 bomb was the 4,000,000 mark. The real to the Vietminh. In short order the following can “take out any city” is ac (Continued on page 4) tal is very likely considerably Thus, the Vietminh war for facts were dug out of the news more than 5,000,000 and above independence began years before papers: In 1952 Sears tried to the March, 1950, figure of 4, the Mao regime took power in raise funds to re-elect McCarthy, 123,000. Chiha. The Indo-Chinese people 1 Eisenhower is using the March He said he was glad McCarthy " HOW WILL YOU BURY have, the same rig h t to take help Against Thought-Control ism “has taken a place in the decline in the rate of unemploy from China, or anywhere else, to dictionary.” He offered $1,000 to ment increase to deny the need win their freedom that the Amer anyone who could prove that Mc for government measures to pro 9 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 CORPSES?” ican colonists had to take aid Carthy had ever unjustly victim vide jobs. The April 2 Wall Street from Royalist. France in our own In the West Coast NAACP! ized anyone. He joined in Mc Journal points out however, that By Joseph Keller revolutionary war of independence. Carthy’s smear attack on Har the “jobless total is almost sure The Indo-Chinese people are vard University for not purging If an H-bomb war begins, chances are you’re cooked — to top four million by July, may overwhelmingly against the its faculty and student body. Mc be sooner . Reason a July A Protest by Editorial Staff, The Militant literally. You’ll have no place to hide, nowhere to run. French butchers. The French Carthy, who raised no objection jump is almost certain: A bum Better get that into your head now. Pray you’ll be some don’t even dare to arm their o.wn A p ril 6, 1954 By imitating the McCarthyites, who pin the to Sears when his name was per crop of 1,356,000 high school where near the center of the puppets. “. No matter how “subversive” label on their opponents without first submitted for his approval, graduates, plus 279,000 from col Wiest Coast Regional Office, NAACP thermonuclear blast so you’ll be class through a workers and they doubletalk it — they want to evidence, your office has weakened the fight said after the appointment that leges. Job-hunters among them San Francisco, Calif.