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...with all this went a persistent rumor that Red China was determined to fire a rocket that was not a toy-a Russian-supplied missile that might put a Chinese satellite in orbit around the earth. If the rocket failed, there was speculation that Red China might explode an Abomb, also borrowed from the Russians. One way or another, Red China this week plans to overawe its Asian neighbors and to serve notice on the West that it is a nation with the ambitions, if not the substance, of a first-rank power...
...this month the Laborite Daily Herald (circ. 1,464,773) bannered a new charge against der Alte: DR A. JOINS A-BOMB CLUB IN SECRET. Burden of this "scoop" by Herald Air Correspondent Gilbert Carter was that West German money and scientists were helping to build France's Abomb. Outraged, West German Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss denounced Carter's story as a phony, invited Carter to inspect West German research centers-and the French-German Ballistics Research Institute in Alsace-to see for himself. For telltale days Carter hesitated; when he finally did accept, it was with...
Double Veto. De Gaulle was obviously trying to prod the U.S. out of its longstanding refusal to share nuclear secrets with France-a refusal that has unquestionably hampered French scientists in their effort to devise their own Abomb. In London, where 650 leading citizens of 14 NATO countries assembled in an Atlantic Congress to mull over the state of the alliance, French General Marcel Carpentier grumbled: "Britain and America have secrets and can use them as they wish. It is because of this double veto that France has decided to build its own Continental deterrent...
...just as the world seems able to push from its mind the memory of the Abomb, so does Hiroshima itself. While the 30,000 pilgrims attended the commemorative service last week, nearly as many crowded into a nearby ballpark for a baseball game. As night fell, big bright neon signs flashed invitations to amusement centers. The broad Ota River glittered with floating lanterns, and fireworks burst their colored lights against the sky in celebration of the joyous Buddhist Festival of Lanterns. Adjoining the grisly Peace Memorial Data Hall in Nakajima Park is a modern, air-conditioned hotel that caters...
...They tried to suggest, from their own experience, how costly nuclear weaponry could get (De Gaulle, in talks with John Foster Dulles later in the week, counted on the U.S. to help out with know-how and materials). Apparently British "sympathy" was mistaken for support. MACMILLAN: YES TO FRENCH ABOMB, crowed the Paris-Journal, to the discomfiture of the British delegation...