Evening star., 1949-05-01
Anarchists Uproar
Marks Compton Talk
Before Paris Rally
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PARIS. April 3o.-A group Of
youths identified as anarchists
almost broke UP tonight's session
of the Revolutionary Democratic
Rally with protests over the atomic
bomb.
The uproar followed q speech by
DR.. Karl T. Compton. chairman Of
the United States Military Estab-
Research and Develop
ment Board and former president
OF Massachusetts, Institute Of
Technology.
Or. Compton told the group Of
leftists. gathered to proclaim q
crusade against war and dirctator-
ship, that ne had participated in
President Truman's decision TO
drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshi-
ma and Nagasaki. Japan.
He had scarcely finished when
Q number of youths stood up in
various sections OF the crowd as
sembled in the Palais des Sports
and began shouting. One of the
youths exclaimed: We protest the
atomic bomb!"
As the tumult increased. groups
rushed toward the speakers plat
form, and for several minutes the
meeting was virtually suspended.
Chairman Georges Altman. editor
Of the Left Wing newspaper Franc
Tireur. made several efforts to re-
store order. He finally succeeded
by promising both Anarchist and
Trotskyite groups they would be
permitted to state their positions
Davis Addresses Crowd.
During the uproar. Garry Davis,
former American bomber pilot and
elf-styled world citizen. stepped
TO the rostrum. Mr.. Davis, who
heads the so-called Citizens Move
ment. told the crowd of 10000
that people of the world have had
enough of hate and enough Of
fear"
Mr.. Davis was cheered as he
spoke. He asked the world COM
munity to recognize that the
United Nations is not sufficient.
While Mr.. Davis was speaking
several persons climbed on the
stage but were thrown back by
the leaders of the rally.
Previously DR.. Compton told the
gathering President Truman had
informed Soviet Prime Minister
Stain at the Potsdam Conference
the United States intended to use
the atomic bomb If Japan rejected
the Potsdam ultimatum.
He said the decision to drop the
bomb was to force a quick end to
the war and thus save Allied and
japanese lives in q prolonged re-
sistance which American military
leaders foresaw on japanese home
islands. He said the second rea-
son for using the bomb was to
achieve international control of
atomic energy as quickly as pos
sible.
Farrell Addresses Rally.
Earlier today James T.. Farrell,
American author. told the rally
the recent Communist-sponsored
World Peace Congress had
preached theological hooligan-
ism" He added the congress was
an attempt to manipulate deeply
felt sentiments for peace and
freedom by applying q Soviet ver-
sion Of Adolf Hitler's technique
Of the big lie"
Tonight's rally was sponsored
by q leftist group influenced by
Jean-Paul Sartre, French play
wright.
nlOtIlCi SPCdhCi. koAdliCS &hOoA
philosophy professor of New York
University, who is chairman OF
Americans for Intellectual Free
dom, spoke with Mr.. Farrell at q
day session in the Sorbonne audi
torium.
Saying that Hitler'S mad ma
tionalism" tried to impose strait
jacket on all science and art,
Mr.. Hook declared:
To-day in the Soviet Union, and
gradually in all other countries
behind the Iron Curtain, similar
obscurantist views are being i'm
posed on all scientists. writers
and artists. The color Of the In
tellectual straitjacket is different
but the cut is the same"
Misrepresentation Charged.
Mr.. Farrell said Soviet propa-
ganda was deliberately misrepre-
senting American life in order to