Evening star., 1945-08-11

onS more helllSh even than the new
atomic bomb.
There are some who prefer the
old path and all the horrors hidden
along it. The New York Daily News
for one. Having failed thus far to
foment in America a fighting state
of mind toward Russia, the editor
of that newspaper has uncovered
another possibility He would pre-
pare our minds and emotions for q
war with Canada.
Explaining that the basis of the
atomic bomb is uranium and that
Canada has the worlds largest de-
posit of that metal, he offers this:
That means that Canada, already
our ally in this war, will serve its
own best interests as we'll as ours
by making uranium in ample guam
tlty available to us at all times, and
by making 1t not available to other
nations. In matters like this, it is a
question of kill or be killed in war;
time, and of lining up the best posi-
BILE weapons in peacetime lest others
line them up against us and in due
time deal us Pearl Harbor.
Wants Her as Exclusive Ally.
"As to uranium. Canada should
make itself our out-and-out and
exclusive ally. If it won't do So
we'll, we now have the jump on the
rest OF the world as regards manu-
facture and manipulation of atom
bombs, and enough patriotic Amer
leans can probably be found to see
to it that Canada does the right
thing by us and by itself with
uranium"
So we would fight Canada for
share of her uranium unless she
gives 1t to us and to nobody else
So we wouldn't wait for the next
war; we'd have it now and we'd
have 1t with our closest friend and
nearest neighbor
That would give all of us who
didn't get overseas a chance to really
experience war, to see it, hear it. feel
1t, smell it. We'd have our own
cities bombed and our women, chill
dren and old folks killed. The war
"SbtANAl 4ooG lORlks ouI
bomberS would soon wipe out Can
ada's principal cities and Canada
would have TO quit. In the mean
time, OF course, Canada'S atomic
bomberS would have been DESTROYING
some OF our cities, such as New York,
Boston, Buffalo, Detroit and Chi
cago, but we would still have plenty
of cities and plenty of people.
Foolish eXaggeration? Not at all.
Whether or not it is possible to
eXaggerate the editors idiocy, it is
not possible to exaggerate the conse-
quences of modern war.
Fortunately in this country. where
we are still more obsessed by our
terrifying responsibility for atomic
warfare than we are by the collapse
Of Japan, the general reaction is
different
Instrument for Council.
Senator Connally finds in the dev-
astating new weapon the instrument
needed by the Security Council of
the United Nations to prevent ag-
gression by any nation.
Senator Hatch says he does not
believe the English-speaking nations
IN retain the secret of harnessing
atomic energy and suggests that the
new United Nations Charter be
strengthened in the light of it's dis
covery. He proposes that the AS
sembly of the United Nations be
given authority to prepare a code Of
international law that will be as
binding on this and other nations as
domestic law.
Senator Ball, while suggesting that
the secret should be guarded closely
for the time being, says he doubts if |
the United States and Britain can
take the position that we have a
monopoly on virtue or that the
atomic secret is safe in our hands
and not safe in the hands of others.
What these Senators say is certain |
to appeal to the intelligence of the