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REACTION
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Cle past.
Swedish Premier Tage Err
lander said the American tests
confirmed his government S
fear that the Soviet Unions S
earlier resumption of tests
might lead to a reckless arms
race in the field of nuclear
armament"
Norway'S Foreign Minister
Halvard Lange declared: 1.-The
news (of the American tests)
will be received with regret in
wide circles in this country"
Cites Geneva Record
Denmark'S Premier Viggo
Kampmann said: This has
happened now as no satisfac-
tory result has been reached
at the Geneva disarmament
conference within the time
limit set by President
Kennedy"
In Geneva, United States
Ambassador Arthur H. Dean
told the 17-nation disarma-
ment conference a nuclear test
ban remains a prime objective
of United States policy.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Min
lister Valerian A. Zorin charged
that the new American tests
are IAN aggressive act directed
against the whole world which
has pushed us closer to the
abyss of inevitable war" He
said the Soviet Union is now
compelled ito take the neces-
sary measures to protect its
security" presumably a new
series of Soviet atmospheric
tests. But Mr.. Zorin and the
other Soviet bloc delegates did
not walk out of the conference
as they had threatened last
week to do if the United States
resumed testing.
Neutrals DeplOre Move
Spokesman for the eight non-
aligned nations at the confer
ence deplored the American
test series but urged that the
negotiations be speeded up to
bring the nuclear-arms race to
a halt.
A member of the Canadian
delegation at Geneva said Can
ada sympathizeS with the
United States but added: 1--WE
are against any nuclear tests in
any environment"
In the United Arab Republic,
Cairo's daily AL Akhbar said /:
"Our belief in positive neutral
ity will find an echo among
peace loving nations when
world peace remains at stake
let's hope the Geneva dis
armament conference makes a
step forward and saves the
world from the terrible night
mare-nuclear tests"
Citizens of Hiroshima, the
first atem-bombed city, reacted
with dismay and regret. Former
Gov. Hiroo Ohara said: 1--WE
feel such tests should have been
suspended long, long ago
at all costs on any ac-
count"
"Great Mistake"
DR.. Earle Reynolds, American
pacifiSt-educator, told a nation
wide japanese televiSion audi
ence from Hiroshima: 1T was
a very great mistake that my
country began nuclear tests
again in the Pacific. I think
they will encourage the Soviet
Union to resume testing again. y
Burma's Foreign Minister U
Thi Han said his neutralist
nation deplored all nucleal
tests and wished they could be
stopped.
Chang Kai-shek's National
ist China welcomed the Ameri-
can resumption of tests. Hsieh
Cheng-yu, a senior member Of
the Yuan CParliament) praised
the courageous decision" Of
President Kennedy to go ahead
and declared: Strength is the
only language the Communists
understand"
Abdul Aziz Ishak, a Malayar
cabinet minister who is chair
man of a nongovernment anti.
nuclear armament group, sale
the United States decision may
make it necessary for the
smaller nations of the worlc
ito look elsewhere for leader.
ship some neutral country
For, by letting off the bomb, tht
United States has lost our re-
spect." He said he was speak
ing as chairman of the group
and not as cabinet minister.
South Korea's Strongmar
Gen. Chung-hee Park approved
the American tests but eX.
pressed hope that they woulc
not mean abandoning effort:
for a test ban.
An Indian government spokes'
man said it was tragic that
the United States had resumed
nuclear tests in the atmos.
phere while the Geneva talks
were still continuing.
The Philippine Foreign Offict
said nobody can possibly re-
joice," but called the Ameri.
can tests "a painful necessit!
imposed by the overriding dut!
to maintain at a high level it.
capacity to deter aggression"
In the first comment from
Latin America, a Brazilian For