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While its weaponeers are at work in the Pacific (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the Atomic Energy Commission is also going after peaceful nuclear power in a big way. Speaking last week to a Washington meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Commissioner Henry D. Smyth told about the AEC's five-year plan for hitching the atom to nonmilitary power production. During this period, he said, the AEC intends to build five different power reactors, some large, some small...
...twenties, a young author named Fitzgerald wrote This Side of Paradise, which although no great literary masterpiece, established for him the title of laureate of the Jazz Age. If C.G. Lumbard is consciously trying to emulate Fitzgerald--though I doubt that he is--he has realized that the Atom requires a somewhat different treatment from Jazz. Yet there are a number of similarities in the men themselves; both young and trying to write of their own age group, both attempting to relate themselves to current trends and to affect an insight which they could not have...
Alexander's statement, greeted with loud hurrahs in the London press, gave practical effect in Britain to the same "New Look" defense philosophy which atomic air power - and the need for long-range economy - have produced in the U.S. Britain's $4.6 billion defense budget for 1954-55 will 1) thin out British army garrisons abroad, 2) invest most heavily in guided missiles, jet bombers and swept-wing fighters. Old Soldier Alexander was hopeful that the West's defense buildup would prove a "strong deterrent to aggression." But - and the but reverberated in Westminster - "if by some...
...Britain should give Moscow a solemn warning: "That in the event of aggression [against any of the NATO powers, including Germany], the aggressor will be subjected to the full weight of Anglo-American air power, using the atom, and in due course, the hydrogen bomb." The West should also inform Rus sia that West German forces are ready in two or three years . . . British and U.S. troop will be withdrawn "from the Continent, and the French forces back into France." Western troops would remain in Berlin "as a token force," but the protection of West Germany would be left...
...York's Supreme Court moved to straighten out the troubled lives of the two sons of executed Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The boys, Michael, 11, and Robert. 6. were given by the Rosenberg's defense attorney, the late Emanuel Bloch. to a Manhattan couple, Songwriter Abel (Strange Fruit) Meeropol and his wife. The Society for the Prevention of-Cruelty to Children charged that, in the hands of the Meeropols, the two orphans were ruthlessly exploited by Communist groups as fund-raising tools and propaganda sob stories. This week State Supreme Court Justice James B. M. McNally...