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White House Denounces Soviet. Blast
As Device to Incite World Fear
WASHINGTON (AP) Russia exploded its vaunted superbomb yesterday and the White
House denounced the action as a device to incite "fright and panic."
The blast, set off in the face of worldwide pleas against it, brought expressions of anger
and alarm throughout the non-Communist world.
In a statement obviously approved by President Kennedy, the White House called it
an effort at blackmail that will be repelled "not only by the steadfastness of free men but
by the power of the arms which men will use to defend their freedom."
This mightiest of all man-made explosions was estimated in "the order of 50 megatons"
— eq ual to the power of 50 million tons of TNT--as Soviet Premier Khrushchev had pro
claimed two weeks ago it would be.
The Atomic Energy Commission said the blast took place early yesterday on the Soviet's
Ghana Purges
Political Foes
ACCRA, Ghana (UP) Presi
dent Kwarne Nkrumah tightened
his grip on Ghana with passage
through Parliament yesterday of
a bill selling up special courts
which can mete out the death pen
alty for political offenses.
Only five votes were cast
against the bill—all by members
of the opposition United party.
Thirty-six votes were in favor.
The new courts are to be made
up of three judges appointed per
sonally by the president. There
will he no jury and no right of
appeal.
Majority decision by the special
courts of three judges is sufficient
to find a prisoner guilty and the
existence of any minority opinion
will not be disclosed.
In a preface to the bill, leftist
Interior Minister Kwaku Boateng
specified the courts will deal with
"offenses against the state such
as treason and sedition and of
fenses against the peace such as
rioting, unlawful assembly and
other serious breaches of the
peace."
News Analyst to Quit CBS
NEW YORK (/1 1 ) Veteran
new analyst Howard K. Smith is
leaving the Columbia Broadcast
ing Sytsem because of "a differ
ence in interpretation of CBS
news policy," the network an
nounced yesterday.
Party Banishes Stalin's Body
To Degrade Former Leader
MOSCOW (P) The Communist party has banished
Joseph Stalin's remains from its hallowed place beside V. I.
Lenin in the tomb on Red Square.
It was a final degradation of the man who had exercised
iron and despotic control over the party and the whole Soviet
Union for 25 years; who was
hailed up until his death eight
years ago by current Premier
Khrushchev as "our great leader
and teacher, the inspirer and or
ganizer of all our victories."
But times have changed.
At the current 22nd congress of
the Communist party, Khrushchev
has brought out for the whole
Soviet public to hear, the disclo
sures of Stalin's crimes that
Khrushchev made in his secret
speech to the 20th congress in
1956. Murderer, torturer and bun
gler are only a few of the epi
thets Khrushchev and his follow
ers have hurled at the late dic
tator.
As they spoke, it became ob
vious it would be impossible for
Stalin's body to remain in the
tomb Nov. 7, when his successors
review the par ade in Red
Square celebrating the 44th an
niversary of th e Bolshevik
Revolution.
This became perfectly clear
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EVERY NIGHT
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unusual
arctic testing island, Novaya
Zemlya, "in the atmosphere and
at about the same estimated alti
tude of last week's big bomb
test an estimated 25 megaton
monster dwarfed by yesterday's
detonation.
I The U.S. announcement also
differed from the European report
1 which indicated that the test was
!conducted at a lower altitude than
'that of a week ago and had
raised fears that the fallout dan
;ger might be intensified.
However, the White House said
the 50-megaton giant "will produce
more radioactive fallout than any
previous explosion." And as a
great radioactive cloud swept over
Siberia on westerly winds various
European governments prepared
i precautions against fallout ex
'pected in two to four weeks.
I Fallout watchers in 80 places in
!the United States also increased
'their vigilance, anticipating that
the initial radioactive cloud from
yesterday's explosion may sweep
across this country—as happened,
!after last week's blast.
I The U.S. Weather Bureau said
!wind patterns indicate that fallout
(from the newest Soviet superbomb
l is moving southeastward from its
'point of detonation. The bureau
'said this could place the new ;
!radiation track somewhat east of i
!which
fallout cloud of a week ago,
'which proceeded due south initial-1
and then turned east.
A noted nongovernment U.S..
nuclear scientist, Dr. Ralph E.
'Lapp, commented that he is in-
Iclined to believe the new super
bomb was a very dirty one which
would greatly increase radioactive
fallout in the United States next
'spring.
Saturday when the delegates, in
cluding Khrushchev, endorsed a
proposal to build a monument
in Moscow to Stalin's victims. It
would seem impossible, even in
the Soviet Union, to memorialize
both persecutor and persecuted.
The resolution said the fur
ther presence of Stalin's body
in the tomb with Lenin was
"impossible" because of "Sta
lin's serious violation of Lenin's
behests, abuse of power, mass
persecution of honest Soviet
peciple and other action stem
ming from the personality cult."
No mention was made of what
disposition will be made of Sta
lin's body.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA
U.S. Trucks
Ride Safely
Into Berlin
BERLIN (AP) --- U.S. trucks
and jeeps carrying armed sol
diers in battle . dress moved
across Soviet occupied terri
tory 'from Berlin yesterday
without Soviet interference.
The convoys may have been a
U.S. probe of Soviet intentions in,
the inflamed-Berlin crisis. But the
U.S. command in Berlin said the
troops were headed back to West
Germany in a routine replade- 1
ment operation.
West Berlin border police said
it was highly unusual for U.S.
troops to travel the 110-mile auto
bahn from Berlin to West Ger
many in battle-ready array, with
camouflage nets over their steel
helmets.
The movements of the troops
followed incidents Sunday and
early yesterday in which Soviet ,
officers turned back U.S. Army I
military assistance vehicles en
tering the express highway from
Berlin. Three were halted, the
last shortly after midnight.
The vehicles are unarmed. They;
provide help for U.S. travelers
who have car or other trouble on
the autobahn. The Russians in
sist the vehicles are rot necessary.
At 9 a.m., four jeeps and eight
trucks started down the highway.,
They arrived safely at Helmstedt
in West Germany. Three other
convoys left before dark. At least:
one truck had a machine gun
mounted on it.
Adoula Wants Order;
Bombs Attack Katanga
LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo
(?P)—Premier Cyrille Adoula an
nounced last night the start of a
police action to restore law and
order to secessionist Katanga.
He said the operation by the
Congolese national army is being
launched to liquidate Katanga's
secession. The rich southeastern
province pulled out soon after the
Congo won independence in July
1960.
Adoula's declaration—in effect
a declaration of war against Ka
tanga President Moise Tshombe—
came as the United Nations dis
closed two officially witnessed
bombing attacks on central gov
ernment territory by aircraft
based in Katanga.
Reds Urge Finland
To Join in Defense
MOSCOW (/P) The Soviet Union yesterday called,on
Finland to join in defense measures against what it termed
a mounting military threat from West Germany.
In one of the strongest notes to the Helsinki government
in years, Moscow also included harsh attacks against Fin
land's Scandinavian neighbors and
accused them of complicity with
West German militarists.
Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gro
myko handed the note to Finnish
Ambassador Eero Vuori. It urged
immediate consultations on de
fense treasures under terms of
the 1947 Soviet-Finnish pact.
The demand appeared to be a
first step toward bringing the
little country of 4.5 million peo
ple into line with the Warsaw
U.S. Accuses
Reds. of Pushing
World Disaster
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
(4))—The United States yester
day accused the Soviet Union
of pushing the world toward
anarchy and disaster by ex
ploding its massive superbomb.i
Other delegations also expressed
abhorrence and distress over the
Soviet move.
The Soviet Union avoided any.
reference to this morning's explo
sion, but said it had been forced
to carry out the current' series of
nuclear bomb tests to prevent the
United States from launching a
nuclear war.
One delegate, F. H. Corner of
New Zealand, suggested that the
big explosion may have gone be
yond what the Russians had
planned. Referring to reports that
the size of the explosion may
have been 75 megatons rather
than 50 megatons, he asked: "Was
this increase an accident?"
The debate took place in the
General Assembly's Political
Committee. U.S. Ambassador
Adlai E. Stevenson launched the
criticism of the Soviet Union.
He was supported by represen
tatives of Norway, the Nether
lands, Italy and Canada.
Soviet Delegate Semyon K.
Tsarapkin said that the situation
in Berlin was so serious that "war
can start" at any moment.
Stevenson referred to the latest'
Soviet explosion as 'apparently'
even larger than 50 megatons." He
said the day of the test would be
long remembered "for a display
of violence on a scale unheard of,
in human history to this time."
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 31. 1961
Pact military bloc, possibly for
establishment of Soviet mili
tary bases on Finnish soil.
Under the 1947 treaty the So
viet Union, which invaded Fin
land in 1939, leased the Porkkala
base near Helsinki for 50 years.
But the base was turned back to
Finland five years ago.
Moscow's note cited "rising
West German 41itarism" as the
reason for joint defense talks.
It said West Germany is hiding
behind the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization flag and trying to
get nuclear weapons, and alleged
that West German revenge-seek
ers already have received bases
from Scandinavian members of
NATO.
The note accused Norway and
Denmark of being involved in
West German military plots and
lashed out at what it called lead
ing circles of Sweden.
State Spared Fallout Effect
HARRISBURG VP) The state
Health Department reported yes
terday that Pennsylvania has
been spared any measurable
radioactive fallout from Russia's
big bomb test.
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