Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-07
New UItimatun1
Based on Atomic
Bomb Predicted
Question of Whether
All Allies Will Share
Secret Is Roised :
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, Aug. IA new sur
render ultimatum to Japan,
backed by the threat of the
atomic bomb, was forecast in
the British press today and the
question was raised whether the
United States and Britain would
see fit to share their secret with
other Allied nations.
military officials In Washing
ton also expressed confidence
that a new ultimatum would be
given Japan. One ofYlcial said
1t doesn't seem possible that the
Japanese war lords would stand
by and watch their people an
nihilated)
British experts on military, scien-
tiflc and international affairs, busy
making calculations on the effects
of the awesome development. said
the bomb would influence all future
international relations and produce
the alarming problem" of how to
control it.
How far it will be possible or
wise to diffuse generally over the
world the knowledge OF how to make
these bombs poses a vitality import
ant problem" said Prof. Gilbert
Murray, joint president of the
League of Nations Union since 1898.
There are enormous difficulties in
keeping it as secret Of one or two
nations"
48-Hour Time Limit Seen.
The Daily Mail, in a Washington
dispatch, quoted reliable sources"
in the United States Capital as
saying the Allies would serve Japan
another ultimatum Threatening to
bomb her into oblivion with the new
weapon unless she surrendered I'M
conditionally. The ultimatum would
carry 48-hour time limit, the
Daily Mail said
There was no immediate con-
firmation from official quarters.
However, Allied propagandists al
ready were at work bombarding
Japan with radio accounts Of the
new bomb and its potentialities.
Prof. Murray said that the League
Committee of Intellectual Co-opera-
ton once considered a proposal
that all scientific inventions Of mill
tary Importance should be published
Immediately but that it was argued
that a nation, feeling its security
depended on some military secret,
would never be willing to give up
that secret.
Security Issue Vastly Expanded.
"One can see the argument on
both Sides" Prof. Murray said, but
I feel the atomic bomb has pro-
duced a very interesting problem
and very alarming one"
The Manchester Guardian de-
clared that IMAM is at last well on
the way to the mastery of the means
of destroying himself utterly"
Military experts said that some of
the great strategic issues which have
been bones of contention among ma
tons now take on an entirely new
aspect. Security. they said, can no
longer be defined by control Of GER
tain ports or canals, and frontier
on this or that river or mountain
will not add an iota of strategic ad-
vantage in event of further conflict.
Nothing less than international
peace will give security" one mill
tary commentator said.
Hopes for Quick End Of War.
Britain's first gasp Of amazement
at the power of the atomic bomb
and the hopes it spurred for quick
end of the Japanese war sobered
into an awed realization of its vast
potentialities-in peace as well as in
war.
ut might produce something that
will revolutionize all industrial life, :"
said Sir John Anderson, who as lord
president of the council in Britain's
wartime cabinet shared responsibility
for the secret and costly research
which developed the destructive
weapon.
There are great possibilities If
energy on a scale presented in the
bomb is made available to drive
machinery and provide sources Of
power" he added.
DR.. E. Slade, research controller
Of the imperial chemical industries,
one of the experts who developed
the bomb which was dropped on
Japan for the first time Monday,
said: This invention probably will
have revolutionary effect on our
future lives. We have solved the
problem how to release almost un-
(See ULTIMATUM, Page A-6.)