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France's Professor FRÉDÉRIC JOLIOT-CURIE, 51, veteran Communist dismissed a year ago from the post of High Commissioner for Atomic Energy, now president of the Communist World Peace Council...
...peace congress is scheduled to open in India on May 11. Last week Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's government refused entry visas for Stalin Peace Prizewinners Joliot-Curie and the "Red Dean" of Canterbury, and for the U.S.'s Paul Robeson, who, surprisingly, had not qualified for the medal from Moscow...
...dupe-and Thomas Mann had shown himself to be only too susceptible to the Communist shell game. The Warsaw Peace Conference had elected Dr. Mann to its presidium in absentia, and Mann had had to cable a protest and his explanation: he had written France's Communist Dr. Joliot-Curie refusing to attend the conference but expressing his sympathy for Joliot-Curie's efforts for peace. Mann had refused to sign the Stockholm petition, but had sent a recorded message to Chicage's Mid-Century Conference for Peace, taken over by the same gang...
Behind Socialist Perrin's triumph some thoughtful folk professed to see a measure of Communist maneuvering. Joliot-Curie heads the nuclear chemistry laboratory at the College de France, and Perrin the experimental physics laboratory at the same institution. American visitors have reported remarkable goings-on at the Collège. Physicist Alexander Zucker of the Oak Ridge, Tenn. National Laboratory wrote in the current issue of Physics Today: "There is a Communist cell meeting every week . . . Laboratories in Paris are known by their political affiliations rather than by the work they do. Thus we have Clerical laboratories, Communist laboratories...
...fellow traveler, he is certainly more acceptable to the Reds than Thibaud, who is an outspoken antiCommunist. When a learned scientific paper by Thibaud reporting a discovery concerning atomic nuclei was submitted to the Academy of Science, observers considered it more than a coincidence that two bright students of Joliot-Curie should immediately produce papers reporting similar findings. Their papers, forwarded to the academy by Joliot-Curie, switched the limelight from Thibaud, who had been getting a big play in the non-Communist press...