Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-07
Churchill Calls Bomb 5
Success Everlasting
Tribute 10 Roosevelt
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Aug. Former Prime
Minister Churchill said last night
that it was by Gods mercy" that
American and British, instead OF
German, scientists discovered the
secret of atomic power long merci-
fully withheld from man."
The success of the historic
achievement, he added, stood ito
the everlasting honor" of the late
President Roosevelt.
Mr.. Churchill's statement, re-
leased by his successor at No. 10
Downing street, Clement Attlee, adj
vised the Japanese in effect to sur
render or face utter destruction.
at is now for Japan to realize, in
the glare of the first atomic bomb
which has smitten her, what the
consequences will be Of indefinite
continuance of this means of MAIN
tanning the rule of law in the world"
he asserted.
Mr.. Churchill said German ef-
forts toward developing atomic
power were on a considerable scale,
but were far behind" although the
Nazis possessed some atomic power
secrets.
Raid on Norway Recalled.
He disclosed that one factor en-
tering into the Allied victory in the
momentous race of the laboratories
was a daring raid in the winter of
1923 on German installations in
Norway.
He said Norwegian and British
Commando volunteers raided at a
heavy loss of life Nazi stores of
"heavy water, an element in one of
the possible processes"
For Mr.. Roosevelt's and Americas
part in the Notwithstanding develop
ment, Mr.. Churchill had this tribute:
The whole burden of execution,
including the setting up of plants
and many technical processes
constitutes one of the greatest tri-
umphs of American-or indeed,
human-genius of which there is
record.
Moreover, the decision to make
these enormous expenditures upon
the project, which, however, hope
fully established by American and
British research remained neverthe-
less heart shaking risk, stands to
the everlasting honor of President
Roosevelt and his advisers
Text of Statement.
w raloociyan nf r.
Churchill's statement, Mr.. Attlee
said:
Everybody will have seen the
important statements which have
been made by President Truman
and by Mr.. StimSon,' the United
States Secretary for War, about the
atomic bomb. The problems of the
release of energy by atomic flssion
have been solved and an atomic
bomb has been dropped on Japan
by the United States Army Air
Force.
President Truman and Mr.. Slim
son have described in their state
mentS the nature and vast implica-
tions of this new discovery. Some
account is now required of the
part which this country has played
in the remarkable scientific adj
vances which have now come to
fruition. Before the change of gov
eminent Mr.. Churchill had pre-
pared the statement which follows
and I am now issuing it in the form
in which he wrote it,"
ChurchilPs Statement.
Mr.. Churchill's statement follows:
by the year 1889 it had become
widely recognized among scientists
of many nations that the release
of energy by atomic flssion was
possibility. The problems which
remained to be solved before this
possibility could be turned into
practical achievement were, how
ever, manifold and immense, and
few scientists would at that time
have ventured to predict that an