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LONDON, March 25 !A'l.-Brit· Russia. A few Conservatives 

ain broke out today in a rash also have asked questions along 

of ~drogen-bomb jitters. these lines. 

Reports of the awesome and Lord Sa 11 s bury, Britain's 

unexpected fury of America's atomic chief, told the House of 

hydrogen bomb test explosion Lords last night the "hideous 

in the Pacific March 1 prompt· I reality" of the hydrogen bomb I 

ed f~esh demands in Parliament I makes necessary a 1ive-and-letUd the press for all-o~t diplo· i live . ·understanding.. between i 

matic efforts . to banish the ·,Russ~a. and the West. He warned 

threat of atomic war. · that no one could win an atomic 

The. Laborite Londqn Daily/war. ·. · 

Herald, in a rare front-page edi- Other peers expressed simitorial, d e m an ~ e d that the lar fears; Lord Henderson, La-! 

United States call off any more borite, proposed an "all-in" EuJwdrogen-bomb tests before it rope s e c u r i t y treaty which 

tums the Pacific into "a source .would recognize the continued 

of peril." It called on the Brit· existence of both the East's deish government to take the foi- fense arrangements and the 

tiative in seeking international West's NATO alliance. Lord 

consultation "on all the prob- Salisbury said the government 

lems involved for mankind in would be ready to study the 

possession of the bomb." idea. 

"The Pacific is not an Ameri- Maps Portray Peril 

can lake," it said. Many papers carried round- c.t"'"4 by Guardian ups of latest atomic and·hydro- . ·· · :.fhe· Influential, liberal M;m- gen-bomb · de v e 1 o pm en ts 

chester Guardian alsQ: war»ecl thro1,\ghout ·.the world. Maps 

of the possible "most serious" and diagrams spelled out for 

consequences of further hydro- average Britons just how a 

gen-bomb tests. ·· , · single hydrogen bomb could · Newspapers use d · "scare" obliterate or devastate much of I 

headlines over President Eisen- their island homeland. · 

bower's news conference state- The science editor of Lonment Wednesday that some- don's liberal News Chronicle 

thing must have happened at said the extended risk area now th~ March 1 exp.losion that sur- announced for future American 

prised an~ astonished s~ientists. H-bonab tests in the \Pacific 

In Parliame!lt, Labontes have would cover territory equal to 

renewed their demands for all the British Isles half of 

aome sort of fresh approach to. France, all of Holland and Bel· 

• 

gtum :nd Germany as far west empire .Daily Express front-I 

1 

as Frankfurt. .· paged the first of a day-by-day 1 . 

. He added that "no means of roundup report on "this stu~J 

1 controlling the hydrogen reac- pendous prob 1 e m - the H-': 

' tion can be foreseen." bomb." 

The News Chronicle warned A "Point of No Return" 1 

editorially that fear and despair Dr. Donald Soper, president 

over the hydrogen bomb may of Britain's Methodist Confer- 1' de~elop !nto a helpless ~pa thy ence, who frequently espouses ;1 wh1c~ might make. atonuc war- left-wing causes, issued a presst~ 

fare not only possible but inev- statement calling on Christians It 

itablei" The newspaper referred everywhere to petition their ' 

to President Eisenhower's invi- governments to ban or abolish 1 

tation to .Russia to join in pool- atomic· and hydrogen bombs. E 

ing atomic energy for peaceful He said, "I believe we are ap· 

uses but said "the time has proaching in this atomic experi· 1 

I 

no'! come to have d<!ne with the ment a'point of no return." ~ obh.que and to go ~irectly once Muc~of Britain's "atomic un·i· 

agam for the goal. easinesa". followed last Janu1 Might Kill AU Humanity ary's speech by United States~ The Daily Herald quoted an SecretarY of Sta!e John F~ster\' unnamed British atom scientist Du~les announcm.g America's. · as saying it is theoretically pos- pol1c;v !Jf instant and massive · sible to make a hydrogen bomb ret.ahatio~ . against agg~ession .. that would disperse sufficient Prime Minister Churchill him-! . radioactivity to kill all human- self soui!ht to ease these fears· 

ity. He added, however, that by assuring the Ho~se of Com-I 

the bomb's immense size would mons that the United States I 

make it impracticable "in any w:ould . consult Britain before, 

foreseeable future." launching any atomic counter-

"But in my scientist's view .. attack from bases in Britain. l 

he w~s quoted as saying, "the · - --- Amencans have now reached 

the stage at which they should 

remove their experiments far 

from any land or any shipping 

routes." 

The Communist Daily Workers blared "ff-blast got out of 

control." Alongside it quoted 

the demand of a Communist 

candidate in a parliamentary 

by-election: "Abolish every Abomb." 

Lord Be a verbro ok's pro-