Millard County Chronicle | 1949-03-31 | Page 10 | Germs Weapons Potent but Exaggerated

"BIOLOGICAL WARFARE" BUGABOO Germs as Weapons Potent but Exaggerated James Forrestal, retiring secretary secre-tary of defense, has broken an official of-ficial three-year military silence on the use or discussion of the term "biological warfare" and in a formal for-mal statement characterized much that has been written about the potency of germ weapons as "exaggerated, "exag-gerated, fantastic or unduly spectacular." Forrestal advised the public that "it would be folly to underestimate the potentialities of biological warfare" war-fare" and he disclosed that research re-search had shown that "germs or their poisonous products could be used effectively as weapons of war." At the same time he denied the existence of any "biological super-weapon." The secretary's statement ended a secrecy curb.