Jessen's weekly., 1962-03-21
4 che WASHINGTON
fSA MERRY Co. ROUND
ks(s-X ~ DREW PEARSON
Atom testing may SET off atomic merrygo-round; Rus
sa and U.S. cooperate TO fight disease Kennedy may pub
fish information on MoseowPeping feud.

had a private lunch with members
of the House Foreign Fffairs Com
mittee. confided to them that ne
considered his trip almost hopeless.
His greatest ambition has been to
negotiate a test ban treaty, but
so far he has failed.
Rusk did not say so, but it's
almost certain that the Russians Will
begin another series of nuclear tests
| Immediately after the US. tests in
April are finished. Our intelligence
/ indicates that the Russians have
saved some of their big bombs.
have them almost on the launching
pad. practically ready to go.
A series of big Russian tests, i'm
mediately after ours, would have a
powerful impact on the neutral
world. also would make our NATO
allies think twice about risking war
over Berlin. 1t would also put
President Kennedy under compul-
sion to test again-just as soon as
possible
Thus the Atomic merry-go-round
would go round and round with
more and more tests and more and
more poison injected into the atmos-
phere.
Secretary Rusk knows all this.
IL h f~- In
while lunching with Congressional
friends.
NOTE-Rusk's chief hope is to ne
gotiate US.-Soviet agreement to
withhold nuclear weapons from ma
tions which don't already have
them. This would appeal to the
Russians, since they don't want the
West Germans to get nuclear wea-
pons. They have also withheld all
nuelear arms know-how from the
Red Chinese.
Monkey Bachelor Bliss
While the diplomats argue at
Geneva and both sides build bigger
missiles, Russian doctors have been
cooperating closely with American
doctors in trying to find the rene
dies for some of the worlds worst
diseases.
They have reported on one ex-
pertinent on heart disease with mon
keys conducted near Sochi on the
Black Sea-
The monkey is considered the
most valuable animal for medical
experimentation. since he so closely
resembles man. And the Russians,
in testing high blood pressure, took
a male monkey away from his mate
and put him in an adjacent cage.
Then they put another young
male in the same cage with his wife.
in full view of the rejected husband.
The medical results, however.
were negative Russian doctors re-
ported that the isolated ex-husband
seemed to be healthier and happier
by himself His heart and blood
pressure were not a1IecteQ.
Moscow VS.. Peiping
President Kennedy is considering
publication of some amazing secret
documents regarding the rift be-
tween Moscow and Red China. They
show that the feud between them
goes much deeper than the Ameri-
can public has suspected.
+ They also show that Khrushchev
has had real troubles inside the
Communist world, and could be a
friend of the United States in any
showdown between the West and
the Far East.
The question of publishing these
documents has been under debate
in high administration circles. The
/ White House is inclined to believe
that publication might deepen the
rift by forcing Communists around
the world to choose between Mos
COW and Peiping.
GA Chief John McCone, however.
is opposed.
NOTE-China is now beamins ra-
dio broadcasts in the Russian Ian
guage to the Soviat Jr,;o,> a.;.:,