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Show NEWS REVIEW Mark Birthday of Atom; Hungarian Attitude Hit ANNIVERSARY: Bells Tolled In Hiroshima, Japan, the bells tolled. People of the city stood silently in prayer for a moment, then went on about the business of living. It was the second anniversary of the radiant, consuming flash of the world's first atomic bomb. Hiroshima, which saw 92.000 of its citizens immolated in that uncontrollable uncon-trollable outburst of energy in 1945. was perhaps the one place on earth where the bomb could be thought of as a reality. Everywhere else it was a nightmarish, Damoclean sword: but in Hiroshima the people were paying it a sort of fantastic and bewildered adulation. They tolled bells, and thoy planned the building of a modern city with a peace memorial at the spot over which the bomb had been dropped. At other points across the globe, the atomic age was living up to its awful reputation by wringing fearsome fear-some comments and predictions from men who are supposed to know about it. Robert M. Hutchins, chancellor of University of Chicago, said that two atom bombs which now could be manufactured would make the United Unit-ed States uninhabitable if exploded simultaneously. He made it a complete com-plete Jeremiad by adding, "We know that some other country will have the atomic bomb within five years. We know that when that happens we are all set for the final catastrophe." In a constructive moment, Dr. Robert Oppcnhcimer, atom pioneer, pio-neer, said that usable electrical power derived from atomic energy en-ergy may be available by 1952. But everybody knew that the United Unit-ed States was stressing development and production of the atomic bomb to build a stockpile for utter destruction. de-struction. And everybody knew that Russia was laboring furiously toward to-ward the same ends. The people of Hiroshima did well to toll bells two years after they felt the bomb. It brought to mind an old, poetic question: Did the bells herald a wedding wed-ding or a funeral? INSOLENCE: Slap Hands The United States, visibly Irked by recent actions of the new Communistic Com-munistic Hungarian government, vented its diplomatic rage in a stinging note which accused Hungary Hun-gary of "inadmissibly insolent" conduct con-duct toward American diplomats in that country. Second cause for U. S. anger was the arrest and beating in Budapest of an American citizen and the subsequent sub-sequent unsatisfactory explanation of the Incident ofTcred by Hungarian officials. , One of the most harshly worded i protests to come from the state department de-partment since American planes were shot down over Yugoslavia a year ago, the note marked the first official unpleasantry to be delivered by the United States to the puppet Hungarian regime. The incident grew out of the arrest ar-rest of Stephen T. Thuransky, an American citizen, for his alleged "revolting and scandalizing vilifications vilifica-tions in public" of Hungary's president presi-dent and other government members. mem-bers. Thuransky, his wife and two daughters later were taken into custody cus-tody by U. S. legation officials and removed to Vienna. In the protest note, the state department de-partment pointed out that the arrest ar-rest of an American citizen on purely pure-ly political charges is "absolutely inadmissible" under the armistice agreement which prevails in Hungary. Hun-gary. Also, officials of the Hungarian Hungari-an ministry of the interior were accused of being "uncooperative in the extreme and in some cases inadmissibly in-admissibly insolent." VIVA: Toreador Orson Welles, the man who didn't come from Mars, has found himself, him-self, to put it politely, on the horns of a dilemma. The self-designated genius was quoted recently as saying he had killed 20 bulls, and immediately he was challenged by another actor, Fortunio Bonanova, to enter the bull-fighting ring at Tijuana, Mexico, Mex-ico, and perform for the benefit of charity. Said the Spanish-born Bonanova in an open letter to Welles, "Killing 20 bulls is a lot of killing," neglecting neglect-ing to add that it is also a lot of bulls. "So let us do a corrida (series of fights) this season in Tijuana for the motion picture relief fund. I am sure the impresario would give us a Sunday afternoon. What do you say to two bulls apiece?" Admission: Shady side, $2; sunny sun-ny side, $1. ALEUTIANS: Bases Retained The Aleutian islands, that long, cold chain of fog-bound rocks which started many an American G.I. talking to himself during the war. Is being Integrated Into the pattern of the North American defense system. sys-tem. General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower has revealed that the framework of strategic bases in the Aleutians Is being kept intact for rapid expansion If necessary. After having paid a visit to the continent's northernmost line of defense. de-fense. General Eisenhower said that the islands were not being abandoned, aban-doned, but were undergoing a "contraction "con-traction and concentration of military mili-tary potential." |
