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...Chou Enlai, with one slight amendment. The principle of "noninterference in each other's internal affairs" was made more explicit by the addition of the phrase "for any reason of economic, political or ideological character." The communique supported the Soviet plan for a complete ban of atomic and thermonuclear weapons. But the key passage was the declaration that "the legitimate rights of the Chinese People's Republic in regard to Formosa" should be satisfied. Refusal to admit Red China to the U.N., added Bulganin and Nehru, was at the root of many troubles in the Far East...
Another subject was the "repression of human and national rights in the satellites." The West must not give the impression that it accepts the indefinitely prolonged enslavement of captive peoples, and wanted the captive peoples to know that. There was also the question of thermonuclear weapons and arms control...
Last month, shortly after Neighbor Britain announced that it would build H-bombs, Premier Edgar Faure announced almost casually that France would follow suit. "If things go on as they are," Faure explained, "there will be a line dividing great and powerful nations . . . that have thermonuclear means, and inferior countries. France cannot take a place among 'second-class' great powers." Faure's decision appealed to Frenchmen's pride, but it threatened to dig too deeply into their pockets. If France wants to join the H-bomb club, warned Faure's own Ministry of Finance, higher...
Asked a reporter at President Eisenhower's press conference last week: Was the great thermonuclear explosion in mid-Pacific last year a "bargain basement U-bomb''-a sort of "super H-bomb with a jacket of natural-state uranium that gave it greater power at less cost?" The President replied that he did not think he should attempt to answer the question (and the White House clipped both question and reply out of the television coverage), passed the matter to AEC Chairman Strauss, who refused to comment. But the whole exchange whetted new curiosity about...
...Edward Teller's first deputy in work on the hydrogen bomb (TIME, March 7). As consultants, Convair added a blue-ribbon panel of 14 experts. Among them: Dr. Teller, now professor of physics at the University of California; Dr. Hans Bethe, first to calculate systematically all thermonuclear reactions; Dr. Theodore von Kármán, who developed Jato, later served as chief scientific adviser to the Air Force; Massachusetts Institute of Technology's electricity wizard...