“NOT SUBJECT FOR LEVITY”

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 63, 16 December 1946, Page 5

“NOT SUBJECT FOR LEVITY”

THE ATOM BOMB \ ' AMERICAN PROTEST ■■ V ' " '■ ' / ' • . : A photograph of two admirals grinning over a cake in the mush-; room shape of an atomic explosion has been denounced as utterly loathsome by the Rev. Powell' Davies in . V Washington. ’.VUWb

Speaking in the Unitarian Church, Mr Davies said that if the picture was reproduced in Russia it ‘.would o • confirm everything the Russian Gov- 7 ernment had told the, Russian people about how .’American degenerates .u were able to treat with levity the most cruel, pitiless and revolting ; instrument of death ever invented by man. . , ‘ The two admirals-were-Vice-Ad-miral W. H. P. Blandy, Commander of'the Bikini atom bomb tests, and x Rear-Admiral F. J. Lowry. Waving the photograph, Mr Davies . told his congregation: “If I had the ’>* authority of/a priest of. the Middle Ages. I would*call down the wrath : of God upon such an obscenity.” • •. Admiral Lowry explained later that the cake was made-by the bak- . ers of St. Louis “to show their appreciation to the Army, Navy andAir Corps for their efforts to find what the atom bomb could do, and toward that end that we might have peace and the certainty not to encourage war:” The cake was eaten at a recep- < tion in the Officers’ Club - at the ; ' Army War College in Washington: -vj ' . ‘ " ;.-y " j ' j