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16th Nov., 51

12.790 Allied War prisoners and 250,000 South Korean civilians have been murdered by Reds in Korea. Express

 

24th Nov., 51

Within the lifetime of some of our children the world’s population may be expected to reach 4,000 millions. How shall we work the miracle of feeding the 4,000 millions? Statesman

 

24th Nov., 51

No one knows how many people were executed, imprisoned, sent to labour camps or died during months of interrogation in the great Soviet purges of 1937–39, nor whether a million or twenty million people are engaged in forced labour in Russia today. Statesman

 

Dec. 13th, 51

RUSSIA BUILDS A-BOMBER. Fastest in the World. Express

 

1st Dec., 51

The US is riding the greatest boom in history. Though its spending on armaments and on overseas economic aid alone is now larger than the entire pre-war Federal Budget. Statesman

 

29th Dec., 51

This was the first peace-time year in British history when we had eleven divisions overseas and consumed ten per cent of our national income in armaments. Statesman

 

29th Dec., 51

There are signs that McCarthy and his friends may at last have gone too far in the United States. Statesman

 

12th Jan., 1952

When President Truman told the world, early in 1950, that the US would accelerate efforts to produce the H-bomb — which would have, according to the scientists, an explosive effect 1,000 times greater than the Hiroshima bomb, or equal to twenty million tons of TNT — Albert Einstein pointed out quietly that there ‘emerges, more and more distinctly, the spectre of general annihilation’. Statesman

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