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Across the world, Communism waged germ warfare against the mind of man. In Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk, in almost every city, town, village and collective farm in the U.S.S.R., workers and farmers were pulled from their jobs for mass inoculations of the fiction that the U.S. is deluging the Korean and Chinese Communists with bacteriological weapons. Peking newspapers printed photographic "proof" of weird insects and rotting food. So did London's Daily Worker. The editors of the New York Daily Worker joined in the cry against their own countrymen. In Italy, in France, in Belgium, Holland and West Germany...
...United Nations, deadpan grim despite the ludicrousness of his charges, Russia's Jacob A. Malik accused the U.S. of raining down on the enemy a horrible array of germ-laden objects: pork, crackers, spiders, crows, ants, yellow leaves, crickets, flies, fleas and death-dealing goose feathers. Malik's colleagues on the U.N. Disarmament Commission could take it no longer. "My right ear," complained Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, who sits at Malik's left, "has become seriously infected by the perpetual dissemination of verbal bacilli." The commission, eleven against Malik, ruled the Russian out of order...
This too was but a hypothesis. General Gruenther, Ike's chief of staff, went on record last week that SHAPE does not expect a Russian attack this year. Even if the hypothesis were wrong (as everybody hoped it was), Russia's germ warfare was the kind of tactic that could only poison the wells of international relations for years to come...
...ancient pulse of germ and birth
...From the Greek for "germ eater." Bacteriophages are tiny particles, believed to be viruses, which live happily with some bacteria but destroy others. The theory behind attempts to use them in medicine is like the theory of antibiotics, but most phages are too choosy about the bacteria they will feed upon. Medical researchers have found very limited uses for them. * For other news of Senator Tobey, see PEOPLE...